portfolio beomkyu kim 2009 - 2015 selected works
Architectural design experiments may be conducted as socio-scientific studies that pursue practical results with limited spatial resources of the city. The important thing is that the variables of the experiments are continually changing according to the different culture, society, and even local history: the context.
dependent variables
ADAPTATION
The traditional design method requires architects to be regularly observed and refined to deal with needs of the future conditions that are not compatible with existing design approaches.
SCANDALIZING The role of the architect as a designer who has been conducting a series of experiments on cities and human lives is to excavate imperceptible variables in our cities and apply them to their design for better future of the city. The ultimate individual achievements in the form of a design formula can influence the spirit of the age, inspiring architecture.
SCALABILITY
COMMUNICATION
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IMPROVISATION
LAYER
NIMBOSTRATUS
SEQUENCE
MISE-EN-SCÈNE
DIMENSION
NEST
DEFAMILIARIZING OF THE FAMILIAR
FACADE
MODERN TRIBE COLONY
ADAPTATION-LAYER Architecture should consider the future conditions and continually change the future needs because of the large capital investment and time involved. Therefore, architecture has to be responsive and adaptive to the social, political, and cultural transformations as well as environmental conditions and extreme circumstances such as terrorist attacks. Layered spaces provide a secure place within overlapped levels, which protects people from extreme situations, and make a transitional space to adapt to prospective spatial demands.
LAYERING EXPERIMENT Mixed media
Improvisation October 2015 _Installation Artwork _Collaborative* _Advisor : Youngkuk Yoo *Contribution : idea development, form and light design, installation The ‘IMPROVISATION’ is a project that experiments design variations to find a method to be more responsive from changing condition
There were a series of observasions on various experimental conditions, changing form, light, and color. Variation on material, form, and space as well as light, color, and shadow were interrelated each other. These are similar to the process in analyzing site conditions in architecture, which requires architect to observe lots of unexpected variables.
FORM VARIATIONS Mixed media
FORM AND LIGHT EXPERIMENT Mixed media, 4 x 7 x 5 ft, 2015
Nimbostratus
_2014.07 ~ 2014.08 _Competition; Archtriumph _Individual Project _Contemporary Art Museum and Library
The architect should consider the basic program of their architecture as well as the public duty of the city. There was a multi-lateral analysis in approaching the competition’s main topic; it was a contemporary art museum.
The quality of air is a fundumental factor in life. But the Mexico City has the most severe condition in an atmospheric environment so that a lot of civilian have protested on the issue. In this sense, the ‘NIMBOSTRATUS’ designed as a refuge of the city from harsh air condition, forgetting traditional design formula of an art museum.
AERIAL VIEW TOWARD NIMBOSTRATUS Mixed media (google earth, photoshop cs6, sketchup)
Cloud as a Refuge from Polluted Air Condition of the Mexico City The air condition in the Mexico City has been severely deteriorated for the past decades, which requires an architect to be served as an environmentalist in designing any architecture in the city. In this complex environmental condition, there may be two possible way of approach on the issue. The first is using a system of mechanical filtration, and the other is to design in the ways that the building controls the surrounding microclimate, considering its shape and site planning.
CONCEPT ELEVATION DRAWING Mixed media (hand drawings, photoshop, sketchup)
The site locates at Av. Paseo de la Reforma 423 in the central of the Mexico City F.D. In nearby areas, there have been held an annual protest for rights to live in better environmental condition.
LEONARDO BRAVO’S STATUE COVERED WITH A GAS MASK
layered spaces
01 SITE
02 GREEN SPACE
03 PROGRAMMING
04 LIFT
05 LAYERING
A double-layered space was constructed around the main program that is also divided into two parts. The outer layer corresponds with the outer atmosphere and visibility, while the middle layer serves as a transitional space between the programs and the parameter zone.
program transition zone parameter / circulation zone
LAYERED SPACE DIAGRAM Mixed media
layered program The outer layer contains art installations and interactive arts which communicate with outside gazes. The corridor that surrounds the library and the multimedia exhibition hall adds to the enclosure of the main program, which in turn increases the focus towards the program itself. installation art
circulation
multi-meda exhibition
SECTION DIAGRAM Mixed media
COLD HOT
ENERGY SYSTEM CONFIGURATION This contemporary art museum called ‘Nimbostratus’ protects itself from the climate by reacting to harsh environmental condition. Although harmful substance level is getting high, it is possible to provide pure air ventilation by filtrating process on the air inlet. Therefore, the museum can serve as a living room of this city by giving safe places for activities for community, reading books, listening music, and appreciating art works. Finally, the ‘Nimbostratus’ with these self-purificational system leads people into recovering stage on physical and meantal condition from polluted environment
WARM COOL
gray water is collected or flowed
Smart climate control using ETFE environmentally responsive insulation system
exhuasted air outlet
<SPRING / AUTUMN>
self cleansing system pollutants were washed off
occupied zone
air supply heating, electric cable
water vapor atomizers control surrounding
The ‘NIMBOSTRATUS’ provides green air zone for the pedestrians of the site, which controls microclimate by spraying clean vapor.
outside air inlet through air filtration system
ENERGY CIRCULATION DIAGRAM Mixed media
VAPOR SPRAYING SYSTEM Mixed media
art museum interactive media hall public library art gallery corridor multi media installation hall research laboratory community space 2nd Floor Isometric Plan Mixed media
1st Floor Isometric Plan Mixed media
PROGRAM The building is largely separated into two sections; the museum and the library. The agallery of the art museum exhibits â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;CLOUDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; shape installations that float above the exhibition hall, which interacts with visitors. The public library is on the first floor next to the lobby, which provides easy access to the visitors. Additionally, musical performances can be held on the stage in the library, which inspires people to recover from their exhausting daily life.
cladding costomized form THK 2T aluminum panel
main frame structure costomized form THK 20T welded steel H-beam
sub frame structure 2X4 THK 1.6T square steel pipe
interior louver aluminum board light steel ceiling frame / M-bar
main structure THK 5 steel pipe
Structural System The building seems to be floating near the ground. Thus, people are able to get into it, as if to walk on the cloud. The exterior of the building symbolizes a combination of an ionic bond, which has also influenced the interior design. Finally, people passing through the entrance can get inspired by interacting with the integrated design.
filtration panel joist light steel frame
STRUCTURE SYSTEM Mixed media
PERSPECTIVE VIEW AT ‘CLOUD’ INSTALLATION EXHIBITION HALL Mixed media
SCANDALIZING-SEQUENCE The sociocultural, political-economic conflicts of the city and its historical background are sometimes intentionally concealed, yet in most cases are gradually forgotten, a natural phenomenon by the mechanism of time and memories. This part reconstructs the memory engrained on the land through temporal construction of the space, which emphasizes the observation of the changing tension of the sequential experience of the space.
CONCEPT MODEL Mixed media, iron paint with rusty activaor on cardboard, 18x47 in, 2015
Sense of place which memorizes critical conflicts of city Historical contexts of a city are sparse; but they leave a certain trace. Sometimes these traces are forgotten or even overlooked by more memorable events. The social function of an architect must be deliberately considered as the architecture reflects and preserves the zeitgeist.
CONCEPT MODEL Mixed media, iron paint with rusty activaor on cardboard, 18x47 in, 2015
Mise-en-Scène for Memory _2014.02 ~ 2014.11 _Academic; Thesis (AIK award) _Individual Project _Memorial Park and Museum _Advisor : Professor Joonsung Choi
Development on an international level involves a large amount of capital as well as a high risk as it contains complexly woven interest groups.
The invisible wound and tension still exist in this area that has been abandoned for years as an empty lot. The site has been separated from noisy downtown by the Pilgrimage Corridor that contains a physical boundary as well as measures of the landscape architecture. The program, put underground, is protected from the outside environment and gazes, which serves as a design symbol of the historical background carved on the land.
PERSPECTIVE VIEW Mixed media
SEQUENCE 1 LARGE-SCALE DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT PLAN SEQUENCE 2 GENTRIFICATION
SEQUENCE 3 A FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL
SEQUENCE 5 ENTREATY FOR THE INNOCENT
SEQUENCE 4 REPRESSION BY THE POWER WHERE WERE LOTS OF VICTIMES
SEQUENCE 6 OBLIVION
SEQUENCE 7 SCANDALIZING
The sacrifice of the small businesses, coined into “용산참사,” was severely forgotten and ignored by the mainstream media. The site in discussion, having been ignored for six years, may as well soon be privatized through development.
CONCEPT DIAGRAM Mixed media
DESIGN STRATEGY DIAGRAM Mixed media
01 INCISING THE SITE
02 SQUEEZING
03 IMPLANTING MEMORY
04 SEWING UP WITH THE NATURE
The entrance of the building at the level -6000 can only be recognized as the visitors enter into the space that is cut as if to have been damaged by the rusted steel. This symbolizes the conflicts and wounds the site must have experienced and its hiding that follows. The underground space, protected from sound and light noises, provides a deliberately controlled interior environment.
PERSPECTIVE VIEW AT ENTRANCE Mixed media
The spatial sequence that begins from the axis of the city naturally connects the Pilgrimage to the inside memorial park, and then to the memorial building.
SITE PLAN Mixed media
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SITE PLAN Mixed media
SEQUENTIAL PERSPECTIVE VIEW Mixed media
The observer experiences various depths of the space that follows the boundary between the city and the nature, and tension builds up as to follow the spatial sequence that connects to the interior of the building.
PENETRATIVE AERIAL VIEW Mixed media
Entrance is revealed naturally when the visitor walks along the corridor on the site These excavated entrances with a bridge make visitors become solemn as to follow the memory engraved at this place. The inside of the building is protected from the outside nosie, both sound and light, which lets visitors to be assimilated with the inside spaces that are delicately light-controlled.
PERSPECTIVE VIEW TOWARD ENTRANCE BRIDGE Mixed media
exhibition area
1 EXTERIOR GARDEN 2 PERMANENT EXHIBITION 3 VIDEO EXHIBITION 4 LOBBY 5 MEDITATION SPACE 6 OFFICE 7 STORAGE
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office area
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The interior exhibition space located underground, of which light has been deliberately controlled, allows the visitors to indirectly experience, through light and spatial changes, the historical event as well as the exhibition itself.
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A-A’ SECTION Mixed media
The Corridor of Pilgrimage along with the boundary th Memorizing certain incidents or history of conflicts is an inconvenient experience to the most people who may want avoidseeing the wounds of the city.
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B-Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; SECTION Mixed media
A low height and widely expanded exhibition hall named the ‘Meditation,’ is at the lowest level. The bright scattering of light urges the visitors’ emotion with fantasy scenery.
PERSPECTIVE VIEW AT MEDITATION SPACE Mixed media
FINAL PHYSICAL MODEL Mixed media, 24X17 in
FINAL PHYSICAL MODEL Mixed media, 24X17 in
These excavated entrance with a bridge makes visitors become solemn mind to follow the memory engraved at this place. The inside of building is protected from outside sound and light noise, letting visitors are assimilated with inside spaces delicately light-controled.
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12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 The city had shown their explosive power of expansion through enhancement of transportation technology.
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With this high-tech transportation, the buildings have been built as skyscrapers, revealing the people on the gap between vertical and horizontal development.
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The purpose of this chapter is the experiments on human scale in urban infrastructure.
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SPACE EXPERIMENT DIAGRAM ON 3-DIMENSIONAL AXIS Mixed media
Nest _2012.09 ~ 2012.12 _Academic; Architectural Core Studio VIII (the dean’s list) _Individual Project _Transportation Transit Center _Advisor : Professor Jinsik Oh
People live in the illusion that they can be an average live despite moving incredibly fast inside of moving trains running by 300km/h. The ‘NEST’ ease the passengers pressure from the gap between the different scale of velocity, and propose some active community spaces to recover their original speed of life.
AERIAL VIEW TOWARD THE ‘NEST’ Mixed media
desire to being connected to other cities mandates the local to be seprated each other.
SITE ANLYSIS Mixed media
STRETCHED LINE
CONNECTION
A line stretched to make plane
new space provide inter-connection path to each urban program
COVERING BOUNDARY
EXPANSION
loop sequence moving line
expansion to further urban fabric
DESIGN STRATEGY Mixed media
enjoy
appear
entertain
govern
amaze
act
arrange
assist
Abnormalous velocity of life City provides multiple scales of velocity, embedding infrastructures on their skin, which occasionally separate a region. At the beginning stage of recovering the wound, certain bandage-form of a cover is required.
advertise
connect
elect
champion
Decompressing design An unusual mode of moving at a high velocity imperceptibly causes problems on a physical and mental level. In this regard, there is need to decompress chambers to recover oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s original rate of velocity. CONCEPT DIAGRAM Mixed media
pay
imagine
free
equip
excite
employ
leader
construct
donate
manage
improve
educate
measure
child
brother
import
perform
achieve
ACTIVITY ARRANGEMENT DIAGRAM Mixed media
PASS THROUGH ACROSS RAILS This passage directly connects between the west and east side squares across the railroad.
LOOP PROMENADE Each space on the ‘CARPET’ layer are connected, so that passengers may go around to spend their free time
STITCHED ADDITIONAL LAYER The additional layer is stitched on the functional transit zone (level +10,000), which serves as a decompression chamber in order to recover the usual scale of velocity.
BRIDGE BETWEEN BUILDINGS This over bridge connects from the east convention center to the west high-rise building, providing stand seats for performance stage
DESIGN STRATEGY DIAGRAM Mixed media
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The newly layered spaces on the existing transit zone serve as a decompressing machine that helps passengers landing softly on the station and recovering their original velocity of life. Each concave or convex shaped membrane structure fixed with customized joints that give them flexibility.
CARPET-GROUND
FRENCH SEAM
FROM CONVENTION CENTER
FROM THE WEST SQUARE
FROM BUILDING BRIDGE
WALT SEAM
FLUONEL FALL SEAM TYPE fixation for temporary space
EXTERIOR EXHIBITION
FRENCH SEAM TYPE separated space for different program FLEE MARKET
WALT SEAM TYPE variable continuity space DESIGN STRATEGY DIAGRAM Mixed media PERFORMANCE PERSPECTIVES ON ‘CARPET’ LAYER Mixed media
TRANSIT CURCULATION The functional transit layer of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;NESTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is directly connected to stations of intra-/inter-buses, taxis, vehicles, bicycles, and BRT, where the integrated transit system distributes people to their final destinations.
SECTION carpet space is protected by gigantic canopy symbolizing umbrellaed nest
FUNCTIONAL TRANSIT ZONE subway intrabus intercity bus taxi vehicle bicycle
FLOATING CARPET This massive urban bandage covers the wounds of the city, which serves as a carpet in a living room where people, recovering their individual velocity of life, live their daily lives.
SECTION PLAN Mixed media
‘PERSPECTIVE VIEW FROM THE ‘CARPET’ Mixed midea
Defamiliarizing of the familiar
_October 2015 _Installation Artwork _Personal / Collaborative* _Advisor : Youngkuk Yoo *Contribution : idea development, diagram production, installation, photograph Defamiliarizing all of the objects we know is the key point of the design variations
Space can be generated with boundaries comprised of lots of elements such as points, lines, planes, solids, and even light and shadow. This installation project implies the nature of space and its characteristics when there is an intervention between spaces by projection of light and color. These distorted floating shapes resemble the Mobius strip that implies endless continuity, which makes it intertwined endlessly. Defamiliarizing all of the objects as we know is the key point of the design variations.
An appreciation in a different way without any prejudice on an object provides many new interpretations on its nature: a clue to start playing design improvisation. This column contains water and light on and inside itself. Therefore, naturally, there is no load resistance; rather, it bears only its weight. In this regard, how can we understand this column-shape object?
LIGHT COLUMN INSTALLATION Mixed media, 1.5 x 1.5 x 9 ft, 2015
Modern Tribe Colony _2014.12 ~ 2015.03 _Competition (nominated); Junglim International Competition _Individual Project _Multi-purpose Mixed Housing Complex
The means of communication between architecture and the city is limited. The physical condition of the city is evaluated with only the elevation, or facade, of the buildings. In this situation, the facade of architecture can be shown as a tone of communication to the city. However, it is the fundamental factor that the people lives and their life style existing in the city.
The facade shows the nature of a place as an interaction between people and architecture A city is an orchestra symphony comprised of thousands of members that are existing buildings. The building plays its own solo music which is materialized into its physical condition: architecture. In this regard, the elevation, the facade, is the voice of the building, and the relationships between them make the harmony of the city.
CONCEPT MODEL Mixed midea, 12X17 in
NEGOTIATION With unique economic-political system of the North Korea, the architecture may be exploited, by authorities, to confine their people within rigorouly controled environment, which enforce city and architecture should have censored design language. But the architecture builds enclosed spaces for people to live in its inside, where people can freely reflect their intrinsic emotion.
SOUTH ELEVATION Mixed media
ALTERNATIVES The north-side elevation toward a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;beckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; stream was designed to communicate with the city of Kae-sung, a historic town in North Korea. This transparent elevation is different from their old design preference that enforce their architect to design with high rigidity, rather allowing interrelated communication through the facade.
PLAN The community space freely placed in courtyard, being protected from rigid design order.
1. SHARE STUDIO 2. STUDIO RESIDENCE 3. COMMUNITY 4. EXTERIOR DECK 5. NATURAL DYE ARTELIER 6. DRYING ZONE 7. NATURAL DYE LABORATORY 8. HOUSING COMMUNITY 9. SHARE HOUSING UNIT TYPE
COLORFUL LIFE AND COSTUMIZED SPACES CONTRASTING ITS RIGID FACADE The Modern Tribes get used to share their daily life each other. A little square box from the exterior of the building shows socio-culturally rich activities of the Modern Tribe such as watching movies, sharing books, and having a barbecue together.
ISOMETRIC PLAN Mixed media
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Three People Share Housing Type
Two Gardener Housing Type
Collector Housing Type
3 Bedroom, 1 Bathroom, 1 Kitchen 1 Studyroom
2 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom, Sharing garden
1 Bedroom, 1 Bathroom, Cabinet wall
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Various Housing Types
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People who live with different lifestyle will share their individual spaces each other, enjoying live together.
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Teacher Housing Type
Dj & Dancer Housing Type
Party Crazy Housing Type
1 Classroom, 1 Bathroom, 1 Kitchen
2 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom, 1 Kitchen 1 Stage
1 Bedroom, 1 Bathroom, 1 Kitchen 1 Balcony
Movie Critic Housing Type 1 Livingroom, 1 Bathroom, 1 DVD cabinet
THE ROLE OF ARCHITECT ; MEDIATION BETWEEN DIFFERENCES The modern tribes who migrated from all over the countries to this unknown place are getting used to interacting with the local in- and outside of the building. A different style or order does not mean that they are different, but that they can understand each other through design improvisations from an intermediary, the architect.
MAIN PERSPECTIVE VIEW Mixed media
beomkyu kim Bachelor of Architecture at Chungnam National University apartment 103-1702, Moonhwa, Chungju, Chungbuk, South Korea postal code : 27411 C.P : 82-10-3176-3000 E-mail : iankim0804@gmail.com
EDUCATION
HONORS & AWARDS
CHUNGNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, DaeJeon, S. Korea Mar. 2009 - February 2015 Bachelor of Architecture (Accredited Architectural Program by KAAB)
Academic Honors Summa Cum Laude with Dept. of Architecture, CNU, 2015 Grand Prize for Academic Performance, AIK(Architectural Institute of Korea), 2015
CHUNGNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, DaeJeon, S. Korea Mar. 2004 - February 2009 Dept. Civil Engineering
Competition Awards Junglim International Architecture Awards for Student, 2015 (honorable mention) AIK(Architectural Institute of Korea) Student Architectural Exhibition, 2014 (honorable mention) KRCC(Korea Rural Community Corporation) Architectural Awards, 2012 (honorable mention) KCA(Korea CPTED Association) Architectural Awards, 2011 (bronze prize)
INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE TOMOON Architects & Engineers, Seoul, S. Korea June. 2014 – Aug. 2014 Part : Professional Competition for National Administration of Fire Department (winner prize) Contribution : program survey, craft modeling, 3D modeling Atelier ISON, Seoul, S. Korea June. 2012 – Aug. 2012 Part : Local Hospital, Seoul Contribution : site survey, site analysis, drawing infographics Part II : Personal Housing, Seoul Contribution : schematic design, CAD drawing, 3D modeling
SCHOLARSHIP Scholarship for Academic Excellence, CNU, 2004/2005/2009/2010/2011/2012 Scholarship for Extra-curricular Activity Excellence, CNU, 2011 Scholarship for Academic Excellence, KOSAF(Korea Student Aid Foundation), 2010/2012
EXTRA ACTIVITY Habitat Korea, DaeJoen, S. Korea | Member | Mar. 2009 – Feb. 2010 DAF2014 Emergency First Aid Shelter Design Fair, DaeJoen, S. Korea, Sep. 2014 Chief Designer_Emergency Shelter Design (2nd prize) CNU Engineering Fair, DaeJoen, S. Korea, Aug. 2009 Chief Designer_Floating House for Flooding Emergency Crisis (silver prize)
LANGUAGE Korea(Native) | English(Advanced)
SOFTWARE AUTOCAD SKETCHUP | VRAY ADOBE SUITE