Joon Ma Portfolio of Works
CONTENTS TOWERS & PLINTHS WET ZONES & DRY PIERS INVISIBLE BARN SUNCHEON ART VALLEY UWC MALTA SCHEMATIC DESIGN GRADUATION TENT IN BALI PLATFORMED LIBRARY
TOWERS & PLINTHS Refining the tower and plinth typology to calibrate density, light, and boundaries in housing
Academic, GSAPP, New York, Core 3, 2016 Partner: Ryan Leifield Instructor: Eric Bunge Site: 425 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY Residential architecture in New York City has historically been designed to house the traditional nuclear family unit, despite the changing demographic and family structures in the city. To address the issue of vertical density, Modernist architects have relied on the employment of both vertical and horizontal extremes through the “tower in the park” and “tower and plinth” typologies, which created hard boundaries between units, buildings, and the city. From this project, we propose to refine these typologies to design housing that corresponds to the changing social structure in New York and provides space for social interactions in both vertical and horizontal spaces.
Elevation Perspective: Relationship Between The Tower And The Plinth Expressed Through The Intersection Of The Two.
Concept Diagram: Refinement Of Plinth And Tower Typology To Address The Changing Demographic.
Concept Drawing: Vertical And Horizontal Living Expressed Through Its Intersection.
Typical Tower Plan: Peripheral Unit Arrangement In The Tower Allowing Both Inward And Outward Living Environment
Typical Plinth Plan: Interaction Between The Peripheral Units And The Tower Creating An Inwardly Living Arrangement
Section: Circulation And Arrangement Of V
Volumes Calibrated For Social Engagement.
Aerial View: Having Both Physical An
nd Visual Access To The New Ground
WET ZONES & DRY PIERS Adaptive infrastructure recognizing city edge as changing flood zones.
Academic, GSAPP, New York, Core I, Project IV, 2015 Instructor: Nahyun Hwang Duration: 4 Weeks Site: East 6th Street and FDR Driveway Project: Design a Pier on the East River Instead of designing a pier that leads out from the shore into a body of water, Wet Zones & Dry Piers, a prototypical pier, is placed on the city edge defined by the flood zone. The city edge is constantly changing either permanently through construction or temporarily through natural disasters. Wet Zones & Dry Piers seeks to introduce a structure that changes the dynamic of the city edge that is currently defined by built infrastructure and changes during natural disaster. Structurally, the columns are positioned to be used as skeletons for the roof and the walls. The angles and the rotation of the columns informs the program. The program changes according to the changing city edge. Wet Zones & Dry Piers on the site, East 6th Street and FDR Driveway, is a hostel and civic space that bounds the city edge that is currently occupied by the boundless waterfront park. When natural disaster hits, Wet Zones & Dry Piers will turn into a shelter and disaster relief center. Spaces are configured to accommodate the duality of the program. For the city of New York, Wet Zones & Dry Piers functions as an infrastructure that bring people into the edge of the city.
Changing City Edge Defined By Flood Zones
Dry Pier/Hostel
Wet Pier/Medical Center
The branch like columns that extrude out from the core column not only informs the program but also breaks the planar relationship. The stairs, ramps, and courtyards that extend out of the three levels changes the spatial dynamic that each program units are placed on. Wet Zones & Dry Piers can be placed throughout the flood zones in New York. The multiplicity of the structural columns enable it to change the form of the Wet Zones & Dry Piers while expressing its function.
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1st Floor
Ground Floor
INVISIBLE BARN A man-made structure that blends into and spotlights its natural surrounding.
Professional, stpmj, Brooklyn, New York, 2014-15, Built Location: Sagehen Creek Field Station, Truckee, CA Position: Intern Architect Role: Design, Fundraising, Production Completed: June 2015 Dimension: 24’ x 3’ x 12’ Client: UC Berkeley, Sagehen Creek Field Station Invisible Barn is a site-specific design proposal that re-contextualizes the landscape by projecting the landscape on to the structure. A barn shaped-wooden structure is sheeted with reflective film on its surfaces. This mirror-finished folly is placed in the middle of the grove and reflects its surrounding environment: different species of trees and plants, sky, ground and the seasonal changes of the site. The reflection of the folly within its enclosed grove allows the structure to smoothly assimilate into the nature.
The incisions that penetrate through the folly allow visitors to maneuver in, out, and around the structure. The barn is shaped as a skinny and long parallelogram to elude the dense trees. Invisible Barn is placed in the core of the grove that lies on the passageway of the Socrates Sculpture Park from the South Entrance. Around the circumference of the grove there are a dozen of birch trees in similar size and equal spacing from one another. Due to the similarity of its size and placement of the trees, the projection on the mirrored surface is similar to what people would see without the folly. The visual illusion that blurs the perceptual boundary between the folly and the site allows the folly to be invisible in nature.
The Incisions Allow The Users To Interact In, On, And Around The Structure
SUNCHEON ART VALLEY Using the traces of the old city wall as the anchor for social, cultural, and public programs.
UIA Suncheon Art Platform Competition Competition, 2016 Runner-Up Team Member: Yong Woo Park, Mi Reuk Ahn Project: Design a Public Art Museum. In designing an art center as a part of revitalizing the Old City of Suncheon, the Suncheon Art Valley (SAV) integrates the threshold of the past, the city wall, and the current, roads to establish itself as the anchor for regenerating the Old Suncheon. Rather than rebuilding a literal wall, SAV lifts up the ground where the wall was placed creating a mound and a vast underground space. At SAV the city wall is not a boundary but a wide spanned gateway into the old city, both physically and visually. A 6m deep ramp is placed by the edge of the mound to reveal the new volume. The two thresholds, the traces of the city wall and the existing roads, are the two main axes of the site. Traces of the these thresholds are rendered through the main volume underground and skylight on the mound. The thresholds are then connected by new axes that projects out from the wall to the old city. Parts of the volume created from the projections are also extruded up to the mound to create skylight, green space, and outdoor exhibition space. The facade of the mound is comprised of three materials; mirror on top, glass on the middle, and polycarbonate on the bottom. The wall on the opposite edge of the ramp is placed with a large panoramic LED screen to project works of digital media artist. Due to the angle of the wall, the artwork on the screen will be reflected on the mirror to be projected to the city of Suncheon. The middle glass layer exposes the underground space as the visitors walk down to enter SAV.
Interior Space Framed By The Exposed Wall
Site
Mound created from extruded wall Trace of Suncheon Wall
extruded linear line of the Suncheon Wall
existing road on site
mound
Axis created from the existing road axis
New axis created to connect the site to the city axis
Skylights created from the axis
Ground carved out to expose the edge carved ground
Volumes created from the skylights framing the spaces with the main axis.
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The City Reflected On The Mirrored Wall: Erected Along The Lines Of The Historical City Wall.
Circulation And Spatial Arrangements Derived By The Site Context
UWC MALTA SCHEMATIC DESIGN The annex creates an interactive social learning space by using the same architectural gesture of the existing.
Professional, Freelance, 2016 Client: United World College Malta National Committee Location: Tal Ferha, Malta Project: Design to transform old military battery into a school In designing an academic institution on a historic site, the schematic design explores the spatial and programmatic relationship that can be created between the new annex and existing site. The new annex uses limestone blocks, prevalent local material in Malta, as its main material. The new annex, the student center, contains both open space and enclosed space through its alignment and openings of the walls. Tal-Ferha Estate being sunken allows only the top surface of the walls to be seen from the vantage point of the surrounding areas. The new structure preserves and supports the estate’s architectural language. The integration of the past structures, material use, and educational ideology in creating the new annex will provide the students with a holistic learning environment while preserving the historical site of Tal-Ferha Estate.
Archive Images Of The Tal Ferha Battery in 1911
1. existing site: sunken
2. space for extension
3. space created by limestone stacked walls extended from the existing building
4. blocks created by the walls pushed and pulled to insert programs
5. open and enclosed space: green space directly corresponding to the blue
6. connection between new and old
Interior Render: View Of The Path From The Extension To The Existing
The New Extension (Below) Follows
s The Layout Pattern Of Old (Above)
GRADUATION TENT IN BALI A temporary pavilion employing techniques that leave construction materials completely reusable.
Professional, Bali, Indonesia, 2014 Featured Project on Architizer & Inhabitat Position: Lead Designer Role: Design, Model Making, Construction Management Executed by: Ibuku Structure Consultant: Putra Wiarsa Dimension: 44m x 15m x 13m Client: Green School, Bali This bamboo tent was commissioned by Green School, Bali to be used for the graduation ceremony and the Conservation Conference Weekend that featured Dr. Jane Goodall as the honorary speaker. The client asked for a tent-like structure that could accommodate 500 people, would not destroy the site (soccer field) or the structural bamboo poles so that it could be re-used, and could be built in 10 days to be used for 10 days.
Dr. Jane Goodall Speaking In The Tent
To meet the request of the clients, the concept was to create multiple tepee tents and connect them with structural poles in intervals to ensure additional anchoring support. Then 15cm diameter reject bamboo poles were cut into quarters at a 50cm length and anchored down on the ends and the sides of each bamboo pole to prevent lateral movements. Almost all of the materials used in this project were organic. Bamboo skin rope was used for most of the joineries. Plastic ropes were the only non-organic material to hoist structural bamboo poles together. Most of the resources (labor, bamboo, roofing material) were sourced locally with the exception of the large structural bamboo poles that were acquired from a supplier in Java. The smaller bamboo poles used for this structure were harvested on site. This structure was built in seven days with 15 bamboo workers. Joint Diagram
Elevation
Horizontal Section Perspective
Construction Images
PLATFORMED LIBRARY Programs defined by horizontal and vertical dissolution.
Academic, GSAPP, New York, Core II, 2016 Instructor: Jose Araguez Location: 547 Fulton Street Program: Library The Platformed Library contains a sequence of spatial environments from the vertical and horizontal dissolution that offer visitors range of social and spatial atmospheres for learning. Library in the 21st century can no longer be a space for isolated interactions between books and users. The Platformed Library envisions a new typology of Library that is no longer confined to specific programs, but allows various programs to be housed on a space depending on its spatial environment.
Concept Diagram: Dissolutions Created By Combination Of Elements Define The Program
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Unrolled Plan
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BIGROOMS
Bigrooms with specific programs transition one programmatic zone to another.
CHILDREN’S LIBRARY EXHIBITION SPACE LECTURE ROOM GARDEN
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SMALLROOMS
Smallrooms are placed in between the platforms. Vertical and horizontal dissolutions from the smallrooms inform the circulation. SKYLIGHT GREENSPACE THINKSPACE
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CORES
Core connects the platforms. Spaces between the platforms both vertically and horizontally informs the sequence of programs and circulation.
BOOKSHELF(X2) TOILET ELEVATOR
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social space casual study group study independent study
PLATFORMS
The platform each contains program. The configuration of the platforms are arranged to accomodate four different types of spatial environment: social space, casual study space, group study space, and individual study space.
AUDITORIUM, LECTURE HALL, EVENT SPACE, EXHIBITION SPACE, LOUNGE SPACE, DOCKING STATION, STORAGE, CAFE, LOBBY, INFORMATION DESK, CIRCULATION DESK, CHILD SPACE, READING SPACE, GROUP STUDY, SOCIAL SPACE, CLASSROOM, TUTOR SPACE, COMPUTER LAB, GARDEN, MEDITATIVE SPACE, RESEARCH SPACE, ACADEMIC STUDY
legend h: height e: elevation core 1 books tack core 2 bathroom core 3 bookstack core 4 elevator dimension: (ft)
slab # 89 h: ∞ e: +71 core 4 social space
slab # 88 h: ∞ e: +70 core 4 social space
slab # 87 h: ∞ e: +69 core 3 social space
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slab # 86 h: ∞ e: +68 core 3 social space
slab # 85 h: ∞ e: +67 core 2 social space
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slab # 84 h: ∞ e: +66 core 2 social space
slab # 83 h: ∞ e: +65 core 2 social space
slab # 82 h: ∞ e: +64 core 1 social space
slab # 81 h: e: +63 core 1 social space
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slab # 71 h: 10ft e: +53 core 1 study space research space academic study
slab # 72 h: 10ft e: +54 core 1 study space research space academic study
slab # 73 h: 10ft e: +55 core 2 study space research space academic study
slab # 74 h: 10ft e: +56 core 2 study space research space academic study
slab # 75 h: 10ft e: +57 core 2 study space research space academic study
slab # 76 h: 10ft e: +58 core 3 study space research space academic study
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slab # 77 h: 10ft e: +59 core 3 study space research space academic study
slab # 78 h: 10ft e: +60 core 4 study space research space academic study
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slab # 80 h: 9ft e: +62 core 4 social space
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slab # 79 h: 10ft e: +61 core 4 cafe social space 19.49
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30.94
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slab # 70 h: 10ft e: +52 core 4 study space research space academic study
slab # 69 h: 10ft e: +51 core 4 study space research space academic study
slab # 68 h: 10ft e: +50 core 4 study space research space academic study
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slab # 67 h: 10ft e: +49 core 1 study space research space academic study
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slab # 66 h: 10ft e: +48 core 1 meditative space gazing space
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slab # 65 h: 23ft e: +47 core 3 meditative space
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slab # 64 h: 24ft e: +46 core 3 meditative space
slab # 63 h: 25ft e: +45 core 2 meditative space
slab # 62 h: 11ft e: +45 core 2 meditative space
slab # 61 h: 12ft e: +44 core 2 study space reading space group study tutor space 25.75
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slab # 51 h: 9ft e: +34 core 3 reading space study space
slab # 53 h: 21ft e: +36 core 2 garden meditative space
slab # 52 h: 10ft e: +35 core 2
slab # 54 h: 20ft e: +37 core 3 garden meditative space
slab # 55 h: 10ft e: +38 core 4 study space reading space group study
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slab # 56 h: 12ft e: +39 core 4 study space reading space group study tutor space
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slab # 57 h: 12ft e: +40 core 4 study space reading space group study tutor space
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slab # 58 h: 12ft e: +41 core 1 study space reading space group study tutor space
slab # 59 h: 12ft e: +42 core 1 study space reading space group study tutor space
slab # 60 h: 12ft e: +43 core 2 study space reading space group stud tutor space
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30.94
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slab # 45 h: 10ft e: +28 core 1 reading space tutor space study space
slab # 46 h: 9ft e: +29 core 4 reading space
slab # 47 h: 9ft e: +30 core 4 reading space tutor space study space classroom
slab # 48 h: 9ft e: +31 core 1 reading space tutor space study space classroom
slab # 49 h: 9ft e: +32 core 1 reading space study space
slab # 50 h: 9ft e: +33 core 3 reading space
slab # 44 h: 10ft e: +27 core 1 reading space tutor space study space
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slab # 41 h: 12ft e: +24 core 2 tutor space group study classroom
slab # 42 h: 11ft e: +25 core 3 group study reading space classroom
slab # 43 h: 10ft e: +26 core 3 computer lab
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slab # 31 h: 11ft e: +14 core 4 social space reading space group study
slab # 32 h: 22ft e: +15 core 4 event space exhibition space lecture hall
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slab # 39 h: 10ft e: +22 core 2 group study classroom
slab # 38 h: 13ft e: +21 core 3 reading space group study social space
slab # 37 h: 15ft e: +20 core 3 reading space group study
slab # 36 h: 9ft e: +19 core 1 reading space group study
slab # 35 h: 10ft e: +18 core 1 social space reading space group study
slab # 34 h: 11ft e: +17 core 4 social space reading space group study
slab # 33 h: 12ft e: +16 core 4 social space reading space group study
slab # 40 h: 20ft e: +23 core 2 tutor space group study classroom
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slab # 28 h: 11ft e: +11 core 2 & 3 child space computer lab social space reading space
slab # 29 h: 11ft e: +12 core 3 social space reading space
slab # 30 h: 11ft e: +13 core 3 social space reading space
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slab # 27 h: 10ft e: +10 core 2 child space computer lab social space reading space
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slab # 26 h: 10ft e: +9 core 3 child space computer lab
slab # 25 h: 22ft e: +8 core 1 child space
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slab # 24 h: 22ft e: +7 core 4 lounge social space child space
slab # 23 h: 9ft e: +6 core 4 lounge social space child space
slab # 22 h: 9ft e: +5 core 1 lounge social space
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slab # 21 h: 9ft e: +4 core 1 lounge social space
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slab # 11 h: 10ft e: -5 core 4 event space exhibition space lounge space
slab # 12 h: 10ft e: -4 core 4 event space exhibition space lounge space
slab # 13 h: 19ft e: -4 core 4 Docking Station Storage
slab # 14 h: 10ft e: -3 core 1 event space exhibition space lounge space
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slab # 16 h: 10ft e: -1 core 2 event space exhibition space lounge space
slab # 15 h: 10ft e: -2 core 1 event space exhibition space lounge space
slab # 17 h: 23ft e: 0 core 2 event space lounge space cafe lobby
slab # 18 h: 10ft e: +1 core 2 lobby information desk circulation desk
slab # 19 h: 10ft e: +2 core 2 lounge social space
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slab # 20 h: 9ft e: +3 core 2 lounge social space 10.27 10.23
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slab # 10 h: 10ft e: -6 core 1 event space exhibition space lounge space
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slab # 7 h: 20ft e: -9 core 3 event space exhibition space
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slab # 6 h: 10ft e: -10 core 2 event space exhibition space 10.24
slab # 2 h: 10ft e: -13 core 1 event space exhibition space
slab # 1 h: 10ft e: -14 core 1 auditorium lecture hall
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slab # 3 h: 10ft e: -13 core 2 event space Texhibition space
slab # 4 h: 10f e: -12 core 2 evenxt space exhibition space
slab # 5 h: 10ft e: -11 core 2 event space lounge space exhibition space
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Taxonomy Of Platforms
Interior Collage: Programs Determined By Vertical And Horizontal Dissolution
Each platform is unique for its relationship to the others. The horizontal and vertical dissolution allows for an overlap of different programs both visually and spatially. As the visitor enters and travels upward along the platforms, they will encounter gentle changes in environment from the dissolution. These subtle changes allow the visitors to meander through the library to find space that most suits their needs.
Exploded Axonometric: Display Of The Journey Through The Platforms
View From Fulton Street: A Nook For Public Social Space