MICHAEL JONGWON CHOI WORK
1 PARADOXICAL EFFICIENCIES: THE VERTICAL STREET
Instructor Partner Location Program Description
Marc Tsurumaki
Jiachen Xu
28 Bond Street, New York, NY (NoMad)
Ride Sharing Transit Hub & Culture Tower
This design proposal addresses the efficiency and exorbitance of New York’s on-street traffic situation by providing a vertical transit exchange facility, which functions as a 24/7 mixed-use neighborhood with infrastructural, commercial, and cultural programs, and as an extension of New York City’s midtown street life.
2 THERAPY HOUSE
Instructor Location Program
Description
This House is designed in mind of three entities; The therapist, the horse and the patient. Three portagonist share the space and because of their different needs and perception, the space could be read differently. It will be a riding track, playground and courtyard for the horses. It will be a front and back yard where they could relax to the patient. Since the horse is the medium between the therapist and the patient, the horse tracks defines the space how they are placed and devided.
3 LIVINGSCAPE
Instructor Location Program
Description
Lindy Roy
63 Flushing Ave #300, Brooklyn, NY (Brooklyn Navy Yard)
Food Production (Fermentation Farm) & Commercial Use
The Livingscape Project is a Fermentation Farm located in Brooklyn Navy Yard, which is a productive landscape that holds recreational value for the public. It not only produces fermented foods but also has multiple programs for the public such as restaurant, communal kitchen, food laboratory and ferry terminal.
Kimchi
CommunalKitchen
Cheese
Restaurant
Pickle/Vinegar/SourDough
PublicSpace/IndoorGarden
AboveFerwwmentationPods
PodHoldingStructureSlab/Roof
BelowFermentationPods
FermentationSpaceRods
StorageSupportingStructureColumns
Ground Floor Plan
4 HOUSE FOR HOME
Instructor Partner Location Program
Description
Daisy N. Ames
Valentina Angelucci
Claremont Parkway & Third Avenue (Block 2912, under-developed in R7-1), Bronx, NY
Affordable Housing
To achieve the different rhythms of circulation that exist within the complex, the units were placed on a 30 x 30 grid. Units shift within this grid to create hierarchies of pathways around the clusters. These slight misalignments within the greater grid allow for gradients of personal and public green space, and this dynamism of the plan is what helps to foster the community around it.
Relationship between Private Nodes, Intersecting Gardens and Public Space
Village-Type Layout & Circulation
Private Node
Public Space
Circulation
5 HILLTOP LIBRARY
Instructor Location Program
Description
Hilltop Library forms a public outdoor reading room that steps up from Albee Square to a plateau above the surrounding buildings. As the rooftop space slopes up, a grand indoor reading room is tucked below the building and connects Fulton Street and DeKalb. Supporting amenities are located inside the library between the two grand reading spaces and accessed directly to the general public.
Overall Structure Axonometric
6 THEATER BUSHWICK
Instructor Partner Location Program Description
Sophie
25 Franklin Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11222
Theater & Artist Studio
Different from traditional theaters, the Bushwick Theater seeks to escape the shoe-box shape by redefining the relationship between the interior and the cityscape outside. Locate at the end of the riverside park, the theater provides both formal and informal performing space to accommodate with the need of near by communities. We propose two theaters stacking on top of each other, an artist experimental theater on top of a flexible theater, as a structural core, whilst cascading promenade encircles the core and offers users opportunities to wander around spaces inside.
7 LAPUTOWN
Project Type Partner Program
Description
Competition
Jin Seok Ahn
Residential
D3 Housing Tomorrow 2014 competition is to predict the future housing concept after few decades. It was mostly conceptual and determined by the one’s imagination. We might have adopted the concept of flying housing but we have predicted that anti-gravity material would be found and used on construction to lighten the load in the future. Laputown is a fully customizable and sustainable floating housing.
8 ROUND AND MOUNT
Project Type
Partner
Program
Description
Competition
Su Jin Lee AccommodationThe project is designed with a double spiral circulation which divides the public and resident flow. Each accommodation would have a small roof garden and PV panels, which would be installed throughout the building to produce its own energy. The project will provide not only residency but also an tourist attraction to the east region of the Grand Canyon. Moreover, the project was designed with temporary aspect in mind. Throughout the time, it will shed it’s multiple functions.
Overall Collage, Elevation, Section and Plan
9 THE CONTAINER; ADVANCED CURTAIN WALLS
Instructor Program
Description
Robert Heintges Retail and OfficeThe concept was to let the façade capture the surrounding through the materiality of the glass. Not only showing the change in space of the surrounding but also time. Different angles will be set for each panel to reflect different surfaces. Top half will be reflecting the New York City streetscape and the bottom half will reflect the upper towers or the sky. It is a double skin facade system, which the first skin has different angles unit by unit with the reflective coating. The coating is done on the exterior side of the first skin so in contrast the view from the interior to the exterior is clear.
10 THE CONTAINER; ADVANCED CURTAIN WALLS
Instructor Program
Description
Every 6 types of tiles were motivated by the architecture element, the Arch. With triangle footprint, the tiles could occupy the infinite plain and possibly create infinite possibilities of assemblage. This research of assemblage possibilities shows the design study of openings and light through the tiles and application to different scales. The patterns are created to channel certain flow through the tiles. For the meta-tiles, it starts with an unorganized and chaotic pattern but as it aggregates the tiling becomes more regular.
11 VOLUMETRIC STRUCTURAL SPACE DESIGN
Instructor Program
Description
Mark Collins Extension of Project ‘LivingScape’, Multi-useThis project investigates optimal and minimal structure depending on several conditions. Using Grasshopper and Millepede, it shows the most efficient structure volume. The goal is to create an optimal and minimal structure volume big enough to occupy functions. The investigation begins from simple broad load and support relationship to specific load and support location. The research was concluded that the process can identify the most efficient and minimal volume, however, it could only serve as a starting point of design due to its lack of consideration on surrounding environment.
