The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our sense of social interaction and our experience of public space and urban life. Neighboring aims to address the challenges of social distancing and
Thesis Project
Daycare center, Elderly care center
Lawrence Blough, Jason Vigneri-Beane Banpo, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Dayoon Oh, Hynggu Han
Concept model, Section, Axon diagram, Site plan
This project aims to change a city form into a street form alongside bringing streets inside the building and making it work as a sequence/threshold. With the collapsed boundary of the buildings, public programs such as gallery, bazaar, and marketspaces spread around the first two floors of the building while the childcare and elderly care are located in the symbiotic imprints.
Neighboring in Chunks
Two main programs: daycare and elderly care can be divided into semi-programs. For example, under daycare, the semi-programs are playground, education, and activity and under elderly care, the semi-programs are social zone, craft zoneshows the human scale neighboring between the elderly craft zone and the children’s playzone.
Site Aggregation
Although Seoul has been relatively successful at managing the pandemic, its population has suffered, including the challenges of social distancing and isolation in indoor spaces. The project is located in a district called Banpo in Seoul. The site is a 1970s high rise apartment block. In the neighborhood, 30% of the population is children under the age of 12 and at least one elderly person is living with their family.
Hunger Stone is a stone engraved with relevant information to show that the water level has decreased. Our idea started from the question of the Han River that may not exist in the future, and to revisit the bridge (infrastructure) that connects the Han River. In addition to the existing functions, we suggest Nodeul Island to be reborn as an island with new functions required for the future (drone taxi stop + urban farm + energy generation + media facade + global guest house). Thereby we propose a new typology of construction that has never been seen before.
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Contextualization
Flood Stage
The flood stage scenario shows the major flood state with the highest recorded flood level(11.76m) in the past(1925/07/18) at the Han-river Bridge. While we were suffering in heavy rain, in Europe, people were facing an unprecedented drought. People could even witness the appearance of a relic that had been submerged under water since the 15th century. Seoul’s appearance in 100 years may be similar to current Europe or anywhere in the globe and therefore, we suggest an unprecedented typology of infrastructure for an unfinished past.
Tidal of Time and Wisdom
Professional Work (International Design Competiton for Incheon Geomdan Museum Library Cultural Complex, Honorable Mention)
Year
Type
Location
Design Lead Contribution
2023 Competition
Incheon, South Korea
Sunggi Park
Schematic Design, 3D modeling(facade structure and interior), Exterior and interior renderings
Program Strategy
The museum has a curved shape toward the lake park on the northeast side and was planned so that visitors could watch and experience the exhibition while walking on the stairs continuously from the ground to the 3rd floor.
The library, which has a shape transformed into a southwest residential and business complex, has a sloped roof that makes the ground floor to fourth floor into one single space, so it operates as a library without boundaries between floors which becomes an indoor playground.
Pedestrian Main Entrance
Lakeside Park Entrance to the Museum
View from the Lake Park
#MUSEUM ART MUSEUM
The # shape in which two L shapes lean against creates an infinite exhibition experience that has never been experienced before by making it possible to continuously experience museums and art galleries in succession. Each building faces an existing historical building that is largely divided into two, and the historical building and each building are planned in succession so that the old building and the new building operate as a single building.
View at the edge of courtyard to west museum building
View from southwest entrance
View from lounge at the intersection of museum and art museum to north
View from lounge where escalators and stairs land
Mosquito Paradox
This project started from the observation of ourselves spending the summer season, enduring the inconvenience of sleeping with a blanket all over your head or installing a mosquito net even in the scorching heat in order to avoid mosquitoes. Throughout the exhibition, we get a desired comfort in exchange by bearing discomfort, and the whole experience shows and proves the process of the deal made by ourselves.
Mosquito Paradox
Personal Work (Artphil Collaborative Project, Grand Prize, The Excellence Prize for Visualization)
Dayoon Oh(team leader), Olivia Jung, Eunjong Lee, Hayoung Lee, Soyoung Choi, Sooha Han Concept development, Indoor and outdoor installation, AR implementation
1. Mosquito Projection
The first thing we see is a projected video of mosquitoes. It's a very bizarre visual experience that makes you want to avoid it.
2. Physical Interaction
The objects that we felt visually uncomfortable were piles of comfortable pillows. Here, we must decide whether to rest on a physically comfortable pillow despite the inconvenience of being with mosquitoes, or to give up comfort by avoiding mosquitoes.
The structures we see when we go outdoors give us a receipt. It is a receipt showing the price paid through a transaction for what was given up for freedom from mosquitoes. Through the AR experience, we learn that moments of choice always exist around us, even though we do not feel them.
The building 298 in Governor’s Island had always in constant evolution through decades of building and re-building. We saw a continuity as part of evolution, and utilized the “roof” as a connection mediating between the rampart fort and the neo-georgian building. The project is designed not as an end point, but an addition, a new phase that will also have a sequel: leaving room for what’s to come.
Phases and Typologies
The project adapts the existing building on governors island, to design and Archive and Research Center for Architecture, focused on adaptive reuse. The program is to be implemented in three phases, and considers future extensions. Phase 1: Archives + Research offices and restauration workshops. Phase 2: Public library and study center + Cafe. Phase 3: Exhibition spcaes+ Event space.
32”x32”x6” / plywood, 3d print, spray painted
Professional Work (International Design Competiton for Incheon New City Hall, Awarded)
2023
Competition
Location
Design Lead
Contribution
Incheon, South Korea
Sunggi Park(SSPdSS), Sung-kwon Cho(POSCO A&C), Collaborated with Urban Yards, CG artist: NRML Studio 3D modeling(entire project)
FirstLight_by NRMLSTUDIO
Aerial view 01_by NRMLSTUDIO
Aerial view 02_by NRMLSTUDIO
Lantern_by NRMLSTUDIO
Overseas Korean Education and Culture Center
Professional
Incheon, South Korea
Sunggi Park(SSPdSS), Collaborated with Shinhan Architects
3D modeling(entire project), Rendering
Shallow Water Space
Parkside View
Character Dressup
Jonathan Scelsa 319 Lafayette St, New York(NOHO)
Description How can a character be charged with performing certain architectural roles, while also retaining his/her personal characteristics? For a start, consider that which is enclosed is inside of the body, while that which is open is outside. There can be different characters or family members for each role, or the character’s different orientation may depend on its roles.
Making of Ayane
Ayane's story
This project is all about a character named Ayane, and how the character acts as solid and void throughout the building scale allows to form different scales of spaces. The character’s family is influenced by both the original character(X-axis) and environment(Z-axis). The character also changes it’s clothes depending on the environment.
FRONT
Ayane's Model Shot
Ayane's Cloak
LEFT TOP
BOTTOM
Object in Space
The vertical theatre tower was designed to have 4 theatres with a capacity of 300 seats. In between main program spaces, there are several semi-public spaces which are marked up yellow in the drawings. While main program spaces are made by the characteristics of Ayane as an object, the activity spaces are formed when Ayane acts as a void.
