Chaewon Ahn MIT SMArchS Architecture and Urbanism class of 2015 design and research at MIT 2013-2015
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Research 1 Ma(i)cro vision
MIT Masters thesis. 2014-2015
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Urban Design
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Seeds of destruction
Urban design studio. 2014
Urban design studio. 2013
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Plant city
Interactive System Design
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Digital city workshop. 2014
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Hot desk alert
Tempo scrap shop
Architecture and the internet of things. 2014
Ma(i)cro vision: Utilizing Social Network Service data for a transformational process of urban social space making Masters thesis. 2014-2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Advisor: Sarah Williams, Michael Dennis Reader: Luis Valenzuela
Abstract The proliferation of data and technological evolution visualizes normally unseen dimensions of human interaction. However in urban studies, only a few embrace this new way of seeing as a practical tool to observe the public realm. This thesis recognizes the digital traces we leave on the web in our everyday life as a new resource to understand the human interaction with the city. The thesis explores reading social space with social network service data and develops a manual for a new way of reading the city that integrates this new layer of information with traditional methods. The research collects Instagram location data which is stored when people tag their post with a location. I read these data points to form a psychological geography comprised of meaningful places that people recognize, share and remember. The thesis is twofold: understanding the behavior of this data and finding ways to use it. The thesis first, maps demographic characteristics, the psychological geography, and the built form, and overlaps them to understand the relationship among people, perception and the built form in Boston. The analysis concludes that qualitative social space reading becomes more limited as the population turns vulnerable and the location density decreases, because the meaningful places for people shift towards commercial and private spaces. This calls for a new reading of social space that combines traditional quantitative city reading process with this new collective perception, which forms the second part of the thesis. The manual studies the spatial character of pathways, areas and buildings that appear pivotal or are completely invisible in the psychological geography. The thesis argues that the human perception of a neighborhood constructed through micro documentations of people’s everyday experiences informs urban designers with the spatial character of places that form the local identity.
Thesis structure
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Prior to utilizing the data as a tool to capture human activities in neighborhoods, the research studies the behavior of such data to understand the nature of the Instagram location data itself. With these maps in hand, the research first, investigates in three main questions. Knowing The manual integrates the reading of the physical environment, the psychological geography, and the experiential reading of the site, informing architects, urban designers and urban planners the programs and spatial elements that form the locality of meaningful places in a neighborhood. Using
Instagram Locations In Back Bay and Central Boston
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Does land use dictate posting activities?
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What is the relationship between the demographic characteristic and the location density?
location density index
socio-economic status and location density
socio-economic index
Distribution of 25 groups
The Manual 01
METHOD
Detect physical subjects through the psychological geography of meaningful places
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Read the them through traditional methods
VISUALIZATION METOD TO DETECT BUILT ELEMENT
NET - Pathway The net of places forms a boundary that gives hierarchy to the pathways that connect places.
AREA - CORE The stepped boundary made through the Kernel density mappings indicates parcels that belong to the core and the periphery of the geography of meaningful places.
INTENSITY - Building Projecting the aggregated number of posts to each parcel shows which parcels, moreover which buildings gain more importance in the psychological geography.
PLACES INSIDE
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The method is twofold. First, the mapped psychological geography detects physical places that fall into the border or lie outside. These places are analyzed through traditional methods that define social space through the program and physical elements.
Psychological Reading
The places that are distinguished through the psychological reading become subject for a dissection that identifies the programs and elements that shapes the place. The program and physical element is derived from traditional city reading in Urban studies. This process links the psychological reading to the traditional reading of the city that studies the function and the built form of places, and allows us to grasp spatial meaning of a unique profile of places of the psychological geography of Instagram locations.
PHYSICAL ELEMENT source
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Kevin Lynch 1. Path 2. Node 3. Edge 4. District 5. Landmark
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William Whyte
Urban Street Design Guide National Association of City Transportation Officials 1. Downtown street 2. Neighborhood street 3. Yield street 4. Boulevard 5. Transit corridor 6. Alley 7. Shared street
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1. Plaza 2. Sitting space 3. Sun, wind, trees, water 4. Food 5. The street 6. The ‘undesireables’ 7. Effective capacity 8. Indoor spaces 9. Concourses and Megastructures 10. Smaller cities and places 11. Triangulation
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The form of the psychological geography in Fields Corner South Dorchester
The Manual to read social space in neighborhood scale operates in two different scales and purposes. One is to identify the locality of the given neighborhood through an analysis that clarifies the program and spatial element that forming the pathway, core and building. And the other is to compare neighborhoods with these measures. The first scale demonstrates its capacity to capture the cultural landscape of the neighborhood because of the specific places that are emphasized through the analysis. However, questions on whether the user resides within the neighborhood or not remains unresolved, making it still unclear what role these places actually play in individual’s life. For instance, the mall that was pointed out as the most important building could include more long distance travelers who visit it, and therefore receive more geo-tagged posts. Therefore, future work could include additionally a user analysis that identifies residents from non-residents. The second scale shows that different patterns emerge in each neighborhood that can be characterized through the analysis of the first scale. With an addition research it will be able to compare different neighborhoods with the same depth of the research on Fields Corner.
Buildings highlighted through the Psychological geography Node / Path: Node Type: Mall Post number: 42 Use: Commercial Location name: Cambridge 1 Family Dollar CW Price Madrag CW Price Supreme Liquors Fields Corner Supreme Liquors Fields Corner Fields Corner Farmers Market Supreme Liquors Family Dollar
Node / Path: Node Type: T station Post number: 28 Use: Public Location name: Fields Corner MBTA Fields Corners Station Fields Corner T Station Node / Path: Node Type: Mall Post number: 26 Use: Commercial Location name: Dunkin Donuts Subway Tedeschi food National guards
Seeds of destruction Seeds for GROWTH Urban design studio. 2013 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Instructor | Miho Mazereeuw
The expected growth of the harbor and the followed automation in logistic systems brought about the decrease of the overall activity in the south Boston area because of the innate temporary nature of logistic systems. The site faces a change from its industrial usage of land towards a more settled complex urban setting. The innovation district has been established recently but the high rent, discontinuity within urban fabric, and the widespread lowfrom Maunufacture density industrial facilities act as barriers 1970s to actual change. The idea is to create a new work, live city which grows from the coexistence and interaction of various companies ranging from small innovative start-ups to established big companies by 2013 planting a platform for networking, access to information and NEW CITY education as a seed for growth. to INNOVATION DISTRICT Manufacture
Warehouse + Parking
Bigger Ships EEE-CLASS, 2015, Capacity 18,000 TEU
New Panamax
1 POINTS
2 CONNECTIONS
3 PARCELS and BLOCKS
The mapping of current activities reveals the least active points within the site. The new infreastructure is planted there first.
The points of infreastructure grows along the connection of the least active points and forms a linear structure.
Along the structure, parcels are divided and buildings are situated.
4 NEW ACTIVITIES
5 LOOP
New activities happen along the structure, and the field of activity changes. The least active area becomes a new center.
The inbetween space of the new centers and the existing city becomes the new inactive space, enabling a second loop of the whole process. Another infrastructure is overlapped.
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Responsive infrastructure The stronger the intensity of existing activities is the larger becomes the width of the new infrastructure. existing field
New infrastructure
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the initial field and new infrastructure
As the new infrastructure becomes active, it adds to the existing field and influences the definition of the least active points in the second loop.
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Bigger Containers
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Master plan After phase 2, the city fabric is cut with the civic spine that provides shared work space and office space.
POINT 1 Profit
Big Company
Land Owner Developer
Shared Public Space & Office Space
Network Resource
Other companies
Small Company under 10 employees
Profit
Current FAR: 4.0 Building height: 44m Gross area: 800m2
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Area: 25m2 Height: 4m Possible program - meet - eat - make - share FAR: 4.5 Building height: 44m Gross area: 900m2
Area: 100m2 Height: 4m Possible program - eat - make - learn - share
FAR: 5 Building height: 44m Gross area: 1000m2
Area: 400m2 Height: 4m Possible program - meet - eat - make - learn - share
P H A S E S
FAR: 5.5 Building height: 44m Gross area: 1100m2
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Planting the seeds
Planting the seeds
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development of adjacent land
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further individual development
WORKSHOP
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Planting the seeds
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development of adjacent land
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further individual development
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New building aligned to the new spine New parcel
intersecting building overlapp i n g spines
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Height: 4m Demolish Possible program and rebuild- meet
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Intrude Change conďŹ guration
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only change the configuration of the ground level
Current FAR: 4.0 Building height: 24m Gross area: 800m2
FAR: 4.5 Building height: 24m Gross area: 900m2
New spine
New spine < existing fabric Keep the existing building
New spine
Area: 400m2 Height: 4m Possible program - meet - eat - make - learn - share
Area: 100m2 Height: 4m Possible program - eat - make - learn - share
FAR: 5 Building height: 24m Gross area: 1000m2
FAR: 5.5 Building height: 32m Gross area: 1100m2
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P H A S E S 01
Planting the seeds
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Plant city Urban design studio. 2014 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Instructor | Alexander Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hooghe, Alan Berger
1 Rain water runoff analysis
2 natural water flow in slopes of 1% to 2%
3 Points of water aggregatoin - disperse
4 Opportunity to infiltrate different programs
5 Data center waste heat supply and approximity
6 existing street system for greenhouse product logistics
7 waterway evaluation Greenhouse suitability
8 Application of different greenhouse typologies
9 Public amenity network
10 Park and public amenity infiltrating into the system
The Secaucus junction is a point where various forces collide. The forces we declared are the current warehouse activity, the develop pressure, and the need for more data centers. My project starts at the point where the MEADOWLOOP absorbs all the warehouses and when only the housing development pressure and data center need is left with a large area cleared.
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Production Greenhouse Consumption Greenhouse Botanical Garden Park Public Amenity Data Center Underground heat tunnel
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Data centers act as buffers between the new city and the main traffic corridors. The waste heat of data centers provide heat for the Greenhouses that form a new public domain.
Elements
Large Greenhouse Width: 24 feet
Medium Greenhouse Width: 18 feet
Small Greenhouse Width: 12 feet
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Urban oppertunities The combination of different elements generates different urban oppertunities that provide a public entity in which the coexistence of data centers, food production and public amenities coexist.
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Tempo scrap shop Digital city design workshop. 2014 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Instructor | Carlo Ratti, David Lee, Ricardo Alvarez , Anthony Vanky
The waste stream in Indian cities includes a whole industry of a spontnaeous recycleable waste treatment system. Paper, glass, plastic and metals mixed in the solid waste become valuable asset for those who gather it and sell it to local scrap shops. These scrap shops sell the material to wholesale traders, and then it goes to the recycling factories. Waste pickers earn money from selling material to scrap shops. For those who are members of SWaCH, the income is more stable because they receive a stable amount of money from membership fee by the households. The membership fee comprises about 50% of their income. For others who act freely, the whole income depends on the pricing by local scrap shops. This puts the waste pickers into a vulnerable position withing the whole waste stream. closed information of material price = power
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wholesale
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A continuous need to move waste, the inaffordability of space, and the documentation of price information appears to be framgented oppertunities that could be stitched by simple solutions.
Actions happening in the tempo scrap shop Original Image: Shantanu Suman, Project Horn Please, 2012 Image retouch: Chaewon Ahn
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Idea The ‘Tempo scrap shop’ brings transparency into the recyclable waste market in Pune, Indea. First of all, the ‘Tempo scrap shop’ buys the recyclable waste from waste pickers on request. The idea of a scrap shop on the tempo resolves the space problem of scrap shops and the tansportation burden on waste pickers in one act. Also, the request based operation empowers the waste pickers because, for the first time, they are provided with options of scrap shops. The ‘Tempo scrap shop’ also operates as a data hub for price information of the fluctuating recyclable material price. It collects the price information from the wholesale trader the shop deals with, and then announces the price through various means of communication. The disclosure of information affects the waste picker’s scrap shop choice. The power of information leads to the empowerment of the most vulnerable actor – the waste picker.
Suman More is not a member of any waste picker union. She went out early in the morning to collect recyclable waste from community bins.
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The driver of the Mobile Scrap Shop calls back to confirm the time and place.
Information distribution The ‘Tempo scrap shop’ provides two types of information. One is the reasonable price of recycleable material in Pune and the other is the location of shops with best pricing within the individual waste pickers accessible boundary. This information will help waste pickers to decide if they SCRAPshop’ SHOP are going to use the ‘Tempo scrap 1. Know fair price or the local scrap shop, and which local 2. Know my in market scrap shop to visit if they areposition using the 3. Competition local scrap shop. Suman More is not a member of any waste picker union. She went out early in the morning to collect recyclable waste from community bins.
The information will be provided through two methods. The first one is a form of audio announcement to unspecified individuals played from the ‘Tempo scrap shop’ while the tempo moves around the city. It does not target a specific audience, but reaches further. Waste pickers who cannot read She leaves a missed will besecond informed of the reasonable call to request a pickup. price and contact information of the The driver of the Mobile Scrap Shop. Mobile Scrap
12 pm - 2 pm
The measurement of recylable waste, self-purification of market and the transparency in price system documentation happens.
Data Data collection distribution
SCRAP SHOP
SCRAP SHOP
1. Know fair price 2. Know my position in market 3. Competition
1. Know fair price 2. Know my position in market 3. Competition
A Moblie scrap shop passing by announces the price and contact information. The glass price is good today, I should sell.
Data distribution
10 am - 12 pm
Data collection The information will be collected through three different routes. Mainly, the information will come directly from the wholesale traders of recyclable material when the ‘Tempo scrap shop’ makes sales to them with the material bought from waste pickers. The second route is the data
To overcome the ephemeral nature of audio messages, message based information delivery will provided as well. When the waste picker leaves a missed call to the ‘Mobile scrap shop’ phone number, the server will automatically send an SMS to the The measurement of recylable waste, waste picker of the ranking of scrap and the shopsdocumentation paying good price utilizing the happens. location data that is collected through the missed call of the waste picker.
She leaves a missed call to the telephone number she heard on the street. She receives an SMS of the price information and the reasonable shops within the radius of 1KM. Data Data collection distribution
Data collection
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April 7, 2014
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collection made by spontaneous reports by waste pickers. Waste pickers can leave a message or phone call to the Mobile Scrap Shop to introduce reasonable shops, exploitive shops. The third source is the local scrap shop. As the information of the material price and the shops becomes accessible to the waste pickers, the scrap shop owners will realize that the platform might operate as a means of advertisement. The system is open to local scrap shops to report their own price.
12 pm - 2 pm
Seasonal Price change ... predictable
A scenario of data collection and information distribution the ‘Tempo Scrap Shop’
Urban interaction ‘Tempo Scrap Shop’ shop resolves the imbalance of information and power by providing price information and scrap shop information to waste pickers. In the Urban scale, ‘Tempo Scrap Shop’ influences the urban context in two ways. One is the purification of the market through the disclosure of waste material trade prices and the other is the long-term data collection of the price, location of scrap shops and their performance for future planning. With the information on hand, waste pickers are given the choice between different scrap shops within their reachable boundary and become at last the seller who holds valuable resource. It not only redefines the relationship between the waste pickers and scrap shop owners, but moreover triggers a competition between scrap shops to provide preferable price leading to the self-purification of the market. As a strong competitor in the market ‘Tempo Scrap Shop’ will inspire the existing shops to be release their price information more spontaneously and compete for waste picker’s choices. The exposure of individual shops and their information will bring change in the renewable waste market through suppressing negative action by releasing the recommended shops, and will keep shop owners from exploiting the waste pickers.
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HOT DESK ALERT Architecture and the internet of things. 2014 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Instructor |
Dennis Shelden
The class aims to explore the reality and possibility of environmental computing from the perspective of an architectural agenda. The project 'Hot Desk Alert' utilized arduino sensors in order to sense human behavior in space and communicate that information through extended web services using various APIs. With the technology to sense human interaction in space, the project raises questions of static space distributions and seeks the possiblity of fluid architecture that utilizes real time information of how people occupy space. The 'Hot Desk Alert' starts out by the existing need of smarchs student's office space at MIT. Whether than dividing the students in two groups due to the lack of large work space, it suggests to have a system that tracks the number of students inside the office space, the noise level, and temperature and informs students through text messages. This technology is enabled through simeple Arduino sensors, and an Arduino Yun that sends the signals through http to 'temboo' that connects the information to various web platforms.
photoresistor sound sensor temperature sensor
Sensing 1. number of desks = {number of people entered number of people exited}
2. Noise level 3. Temperature
Communicating
Documenting
Text message "SMarchS Room WELCOMES YOU! the temperature is 27*C, quiet enough to work."
Documentation on Google spread sheet
0. Logic The logic is simple. If laser 1's light received in photoresister1 is cut first and laser 2's light received in photoresister2 is cut first after that it is regarded as one person entering.
laser 1
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laser photoresistor
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“EMPTY”
1. a lasor is pointed to the photoresistor all time 2. define the state of each possible step 3. if the lasor received at photoresistor 1 gets cut first and the lasor received at photoresistor 2 gets cut after that : A person entered 4. if the lasor received at photoresistor 2 gets cut first and the lasor received at photoresistor 1 gets cut after that : A person exited 5. Send Message
Sensor value >>>> 0, 1 if covered 0 if uncovered 1
define four types of steps
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set the laser to be on in all cases
2. Evaluation “EMPTY”
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1. a lasor is pointed to the photoresistor all time 2. define the state of each possible step 3. if the lasor received at photoresistor 1 gets cut first and the lasor received at photoresistor 2 gets cut after that : A person entered 4. if the lasor received at photoresistor 2 gets cut first and the lasor received at photoresistor 1 gets cut after that : A person exited 5. Send Message
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3. Communicating ARDUINO YUN Sensor Value
Constructed Messages through sensor values
Temboo
Twilio API send text message
Modes
Number of people
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quiet
the temperature is 27*C, quiet enough to work.
Empty mode
the temperature is 27*C, too noisy to work to work.
Procrastination mode
Work somewhere else. Deadlines are everywhere
Hardcore work mode
WELCOMES YOU!
Less people than desks
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SMarchS Room
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There is a Party!!!
Party mode
CURRICULUM VITAE Research Interest
Chaewon Ahn is a student in the Master of Science in Architecture Studies (SMArchS) program in the Architecture and Urbanism group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is graduating in June 2015 with her thesis titled ‘Ma(i)cro visions’ which explores Instagram location data as a tool to observe human perception on social space, and further analyzes the relationship between this psychological geography and the social character and built form of the city. She always has been curious of the political, economical forces that predetermine and metamorphose the city form and believes in spatial interventions to engage in these contexts. This curiosity drove her studies at MIT around data analysis of human interaction and perceptions which connect to evidence driven design projects in the urban scale.
EDUCATION 2013. 9 - 2015. 6 2012. 2 2009. 8 - 2009. 12
Master of science in Architecture studies (SMArchS) Architecture and Urbanism, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA Bachelor of Architecture equivalent to RIBA Part 2, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, KOREA Exchange program one semester École Spéciale d'Architecture, Paris, FRANCE
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2014. 6 – 7
Research Assistant, Urban Metabolism Lab, Prof. John Fernandez
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2012. 11– 2013. 4 2011. 1 2010. 12 2010. 7
2010. 2 2009. 1 2008. 12
Intern, KIOHUN architects and associates Assistant, artist Kyuchul Ahn, 'Gyungido Children's Museum installation' project Group project, Pantech Headquarter Renovation proposal Assistant, artist Kyuchul Ahn, public art installation Intern, Architectural Design Units UA Intern, Ateliers Lion Seoul Intern, KIOHUN architects and associates
HONORS AND AWARDS 2013.9-2015.6 2012. 4. 28 2011. 11. 12
Half tutition Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Second Prize, The 8th Collections of Excellent Graduation Theses competition from the Architectural Institute of Korea Selected work, The 30th KIA Convention Design competition 'Creative community' from the Architectural Institute of Korea
2011. 6. 2 2008. 7. 1
The Grand Prize, The 8th DOCOMOMO_Korea Design Competition, Docomomo Korea Big tree scholarship, 2 week design tour in Europe for selected students by Changjo Architects INC.
PUBLICATIONS of competition results 2011. 11. 11 2011. 9.30
2011. 7 2011. 7 2011. 7 2012. 4. 28 2011. 11. 11 2007. 9. 12
Design Tools: Analytic tools: Coding: Web: Office:
KIA Convention and Exhibition 'Creative community ', Korean Institute of Architects Adaptive re-use of camp Hialeah, DOCOMOMO-KOREA Featured Articles 'The future of Busan; What is the Future of Camp Hialeah?', Space magazine, vol. 524 'ZOOM IN: Competition 8th DOCOMOMO-Korea Design Competition', ELA magazine, vol. 297 'Docomomo competition; adaptive re-use of camp Hialeah', WIDE architecture report magazine, vol. 22, 42-52p
EXHIBITIONS The 8th Collections of Excellent Graduation Theses, Choongang university R&D center 2011 KIA Exhibition, Mokdong Korean Center of art The 15th Hongik Street art Exhibition 'High & Low'
SKILLS Rhinoceros, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Indesign, Grasshopper, Maxwell render, AutoCAD, Autodesk 3D max, V-ray, Sketch up ArcGIS, Grasshopper Python, C++(Arduino), Processing Html, CSS, Leaflet, CaroDB Microsoft word, Excel, Powerpoint
Language proficiencies English: Advanced, TOEFL 107 Korean: Native German: Basic, 9 years of residence French: Besic, 6 years of residence
CONTACT INFORMATION email: Phone: Address:
Chaewon Ahn chaewon_@mit.edu 857-225-7878 70 Pacific street Room 587C, Cambridge, MA 02139
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