Portfolio 2024

DAYE KIM

Selected works

ACADEMIC

01 Field of Rooms SNU Thesis Studio

02 Cellular Home GSD Débora Mesa Molina Studio

03 Palimpsest Niche SNU John Hong Studio

04 Choreographic Theater SNU John Hong Studio

05 Crafted Shelter GSD Hiroto Kobayashi Studio

PROFESSIONAL

06 Cungla Housing Commissioned work, Residential

07 Tree of Souls Exhibition, Pavilion

08 Interactive Balloon Surface Exhibition, Pavilion

09 Plaki Exhibition, Research and game design

10 Seeking a Man Who Wants Enlightenment! Scenography

COMPETITION

11 Guanaco (2008~2029)

Field of Rooms

Academic

SNU Thesis studio (Advisor: Eunkyung Lee)

Graduation Exhibition - Grand Prize (1st)

Fundació Mies van der Rohe YTAA 2020 Asia - Finalist (Link)

Exhibited on La Biennale di Venezia 2021, Palazzo Mora

Field of Rooms is a project to spatialize rhizomatic human networks through a city of inhabitable rooms. In an architecture where each room is connected to an outdoor public space that makes up the roof of another room, residents can actively adjust the connectivity between the private inside and public outside.

As the Korean society undergoes dramatic demographic shifts such as increases in single-person households, plummeting birth rates, and avoidance of family formation, the current youth generation of South Korea has developed unconventional values. But they still mainly occupy either a corridor-room typology, like small isolated studios, or an LDK-room typology, like family houses and apartments. These typologies cannot fully reflect the lifestyle of some of the upcoming generation who strongly pursue horizontal and sporadic social networks. Thus, this project proposes an outside-room typology that acts as their city.

This project creates a city through a network of rooms with a minimum area of private space. The horizontal spatial structure in which individual rooms with the same hierarchy are organically connected reflects the relationship between the individual and society in the new generation. As a spatial unit, the room does not depend on a common space such as a living room or corridor but simply exists in a relationship with another room. Therefore, the residents gain the right to choose how their rooms are connected to others by calibrating the space between private space and public space.

(a) Centralized (b) Decentralized (c) Distributed

(a) Centralized (b) Decentralized (c) Distributed

To meet the social demand of the upcoming generation, Field of Rooms suggests the Room-Communal typology. All the rooms are connected through a rhizomatic (c) city-like public space where diverse human activities occur.

To meet the social demand of the upcoming generation, Field of Rooms suggests the Room-Communal typology. All the rooms are connected through a rhizomatic (c) city-like public space where diverse human activities occur.

Ideal Field of Rooms ▶

Ideal Field of Rooms ▶

The communal space that is a complement of the rooms would possess urban dynamics through the expansion of activities from each room.

The communal space that is a complement of the rooms would possess urban dynamics through the expansion of activities from each room.

1940s, Pre-war

Before the Korean war, most of the houses were one-story and connected directly to outdoor space. Rooms were rarely dedicated to individuals and shared by all the family members.

Brick houses were prevailing unlike the wood structure of the past times. The living space was included in the plan as indoor toilet was developed. Most of these were built in two to three stories.

1980s, Apartment

Apartments became a national agenda to provide housing for increasing population. It replaced streets with giant blocks. There were usually more than 4 units on each floor, connected through corridors.

A new type of co-housing developed and spread quickly aligning with the increasing number of single-person households. It is a set of studios with more than 20 units per story connected through a public corridor.

Field of Rooms suggests Room-Communal typology. With the rooms as a core of individuals, expanded activity spreads to the public space. In this scenario, the public space is not a functional yet dead space like corridors but a complement of the rooms.

(A) Vernacular housing Seo-chon, Seoul (B) co-housing under grid Bangbae-dong, Seoul (C) Apartment blocks Mok-dong, Seoul

Typical Korean Co-housing

Suggested Room-Communal Typology

Room-public

1909, J.E. van der Pek, Van Beuningenstraat Housing

Room-LDK-public

1960s, Advent of brick house

1952, Le Corbusier, Unite d’Habitation

Room-LDK-Corridor

1974, Ricardo Bofill, Walden 7

Room-Corridor

2000s, 'One-rooms'

Room-Communal

2015, DOGMA Architects, Communal Villa

Communal-Room-Corridor

1993, NEXT 21

LDK-Room-Corridor

Room Typology Diagram

The diagram explains what the spatial structure of co-housing is with each room at the center.

Overseas Examples

Evolution of Korean Housing

Unit Arrangement

The variable space of each room has different spatial qualities by the arrangement of rooms. Individuals can use it in various ways, such as closing Variable Area to secure their own space, opening it to be integrated with the outside, or even creating commercial space to leverage the infinite connectivity.

Unit Arrangement

Unit Arrangement

The variable space of each room has different spatial qualities by the arrangement of rooms. Individuals can use it in various ways, such as closing Variable Area to secure their own space, opening it to be integrated with the outside, or even creating commercial space to leverage the infinite connectivity.

The variable space of each room has different spatial qualities by the arrangement of rooms. Individuals can use it in various ways, such as closing Variable Area to secure their own space, opening it to be integrated with the outside, or even creating commercial space to leverage the infinite connectivity.

Unit Arrangement

The variable space of each room has different spatial qualities by the arrangement of rooms. Individuals can use it in various ways, such as closing Variable Area to secure their own space, opening it to be integrated with the outside, or even creating commercial space to leverage the infinite connectivity.

Private Space

Variable area

Communal Space

Private Space

Private Space

The private room is the basis of each individual’s life. Additional rooms can be attached to the surface vertically and horizontally.

Variable area

The private room is the basis of each individual’s life. Additional rooms can be attached to the surface vertically and horizontally.

The private room is the basis of each individual’s life. Additional rooms can be attached to the surface vertically and horizontally.

Variable area

One-third of the room toward the outside is an undefined space to be occupied and edited by residents.

Communal Space

One-third of the room toward the outside is an undefined space to be occupied and edited by residents.

Communal Space

Private Space

The private room is the basis of each individual’s

One-third of the room toward the outside is an undefined space to be occupied and edited by residents.

Variable area

The roof of each room forms a three-dimensional communal surface where the activities from the private rooms can extend.

The roof of each room forms a three-dimensional communal surface where the activities from the private rooms can extend.

One-third of the room toward the outside is an

The roof of each room forms a three-dimensional communal surface where the activities from the private rooms can extend.

Communal Space

The roof of each room forms a three-dimensional communal surface where private rooms can extend.

Section ▲ Plan ▶

Section ▲ , Plan ▶

Section ▲ Plan ▶

Various arrangements of the units create dynamic communal space that can be taken advantage of for setting up programs.

Section ▲ , Plan ▶

Various arrangements of the units create dynamic communal space that can be taken advantage of for setting up programs.

Various arrangements of the units create dynamic communal space that can be taken advantage of for setting up programs.

Various arrangements of the units create dynamic communal space that can be taken advantage of for setting up programs.

Doors Closed

Doors Closed

Doors Closed

The private space for each individual is secured from the public space.

Doors Open

Doors Open

Doors Open

The variable space of each unit becomes a field of physical network.

The private space for each individual is secured from the public space.

The private space for each individual is secured from the public space.

The variable space of each unit becomes a field of physical network.

The variable space of each unit becomes a field of physical network.

View from Inside the Room ▶

View from Inside the Room ▶

Occupants look at the city-like communal space through the variable space.

Occupants look at the city-like communal space through the variable space.

View from Inside the Room ▶

Occupants look at the city-like communal space through the variable space.

Unit Adaptation

Unit Adaptation

The modular nature of having the rooms as the only spatial element allows the rooms to adopt a rhizomatic configuration—that is, the structure can be expanded infinitely, and the Field of Rooms becomes a physical network created by the owners of the rooms. As a result, residents live in a city of similarly sized rooms, where each occupant’s preferences manifest spatially. Some might decorate the variable area of the room with a flower bed, some might set up a cafe, and some might create a playground by joining with another front yard of the room next doors. Each dweller lives in the continual redefining of relationships within society.

The modular nature of having the rooms as the only spatial element allows the rooms to adopt a rhizomatic configuration—that is, the structure can be expanded infinitely, and the Field of Rooms becomes a physical network created by the owners of the rooms. As a result, residents live in a city of similarly sized rooms, where each occupant’s preferences manifest spatially. Some might decorate the variable area of the room with a flower bed, some might set up a cafe, and some might create a playground by joining with another front yard of the room next doors. Each dweller lives in the continual redefining of relationships within society.

The modular nature of having the rooms as the only spatial element allows the rooms to adopt a rhizomatic configuration—that is, the structure can be expanded infinitely, and the Field of Rooms becomes a physical network created by the owners of the rooms. As a result, residents live in a city of similarly sized rooms, where each occupant’s preferences manifest spatially. Some might decorate the variable area of the room with a flower bed, some might set up a cafe, and some might create a playground by joining with another front yard of the room next doors. Each dweller lives in the continual redefining of relationships within society.

Section Model ▶

Section Model ▶

The occupants' belongings would take over private space and communal space as they continue dwelling.

The occupants' belongings would take over private space and communal space as they continue dwelling.

Cellular Home

GSD Débora Mesa Molina Studio: Home as Product

As part of the housing with public assets development, Cellular Home suggests a micro-housing unit that acts as a cell of a larger public program. Vertical circulation is embedded as a semi-public space in the unit, which allows each cell to connect rhizomatically to a larger social, structural, and circulation system. Starting from single-person households, the cell can grow into more public or larger programs.

The rooms can be rotated and stacked upon one another to form diverse small-scale public spaces, and the diagonal pre-fab steel structure makes it possible to form highrise walls for larger public programs.

The users’ visible activities, as well as weathering bamboo cladding and the perforated C- channel shelving system, give each cell a unique personality.

repeats with a similar scale and structure. The project makes use of the repeated structure and controls the permeability of air, light and sight through the windows and materials, creating various ways of coexistence.

Palimpsest Niche

Academic

SNU John Hong Studio: Reshaping Jalan Petaling

Variations of shophouse's spatial elements

This project aims to reorient urban biodiversity conservation by overlapping space for human and nonhuman subjects. The concept of niche explains that each species occupies its own unique space even in the same place because of the multidimensionality of an environment. At the center of Kuala Lumpur, this project proposes a biodiversity conservation method that creates a niche for both human and nonhuman agents by overlapping urban and natural environments. Like nature that has formed a niche through a long evolutionary history, the spatial elements of the existing environment change gradually on top of the existing structure. Different degrees of interaction with water, air, wind, light, and landscape through walls, floors, and ceilings create unique environments for each use. As a result, humans will be able to inhabit our own palimpsest niche in panoramic nature.

Niche partitioning among coexisting species

1. Residence

2. Forest

3. Control Tower

4. Experience Center

5. Seedbank

6. Market

7. Wildlife Research Center

8. New Drug Research Center

Choreographic Theater

Academic

SNU John Hong Studio: City <> Theater: Sections Through the Urban Stage

Dancers and spectators drift the undulating topography of the theater to create a dynamic performance. The existing steeply sloped terrain twists further into three concert halls that are connected smoothly. People can wander around each theater, moving up and down. The part where the contour line flows along with the topography naturally creates an entrance and a path. Where the contour line cuts off, the movement inside is exposed to the outside like in a geological fault.

Circulation

Circulation

Dancers, audiences and visitors can access the theaters in multiple enterances and drift across the contour lines.

Dancers, audiences and visitors can access the theaters in multiple enterances and drift across the contour lines.

Stage types

Stage types

Arena type main theater becomes the center of the entire volume while the other two theaters became platform type to form a vertical circulation.

Arena type main theater becomes the center of the entire volume while the other two theaters became platform type to form a vertical circulation.

Topography study the arrangement of various performance halls according to the height of the terrain was studied through the topology models.

Topography study the arrangement of various performance halls according to the height of the terrain was studied through the topology models.

Fault

Topography

The performance hall blends in with the existing context and forms a new public topography. Theater/street, interior/exterior, architecture/city become connected.

Topography

The performance hall blends in with the existing context and forms a new public topography. Theater/street, interior/exterior, architecture/city become connected.

Topography

Where the contour line breaks, the activity inside the topography is revealed through doors and windows like in geological faults.

Crafted Shelter

Academic

GSD Hiroto Kobayashi studio: Do-it-anyway

The project aims to create personalized shelters for unhoused individuals and disaster survivors, focusing on privacy and efficiency while allowing for individual expression. Inspired by the mundane practice of making one’s own sleeping space to instill a sense of ownership and belonging, this project addresses the typically homogeneous and neutral forms of emergency shelters. Utilizing locally sourced recycled papers, such as used books and posters, residents, including children, can participate in crafting their shelter, reinforcing a sense of agency and community. The shelter’s design involves rolling paper into pipes for structural elements and connecting them with flour glue and paper panels, guided by an easy-to-follow building process. This approach not only provides a practical solution for emergency housing but also encourages involvement and personalization in the shelter-building process.

Chungla Housing

Commissioned Work

Residential, 1453ft2 (135m2)

① Living Room

② Dining Room

③ Kitchen

① Living Room

② Dining Room

③ Kitchen

④ Bedroom

⑤ study

Tree of Souls

Exhibition in collaboration with studio ALA

Collaborator: Jeantaek Park (ALA), Luke Rideout

Contribution: Project manager, Research, Architectural and sound design, Construction

Exhibition Seoul biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2021 Sewoon Plaza, Seoul, Korea | Sep. - Oct. 2021 (Link)

Tree of Souls is a living pavilion that intends to express the flow of collective energy circulating between the ground and the air. With Jongmyo shrine from 14th century and Sewoon megastructure from 1960s on either side, it hosts a thousand plants and citizens and facilitates an experience of simultaneity. The growing mechanism is brought to life through lifting up the ground and exposing roots by aeroponics system. In this way, the dichotomous relationship between the bottom and the top, the individual and the group is broken down.

Material and Construction

Common agricultural clamps and pipe joint details were used to create a unique structure. While reaching 10 meters in height and 35 meters in width, the construction was simple enough for three team members to finish. The

materials were used to make the safety fences and scaffoldings, which were then disassembled to be turned into the pavilion. Finally, the structures were broken down to be fully recycled after the exhibition.

Communication

Watering plants with an aerophonic system provided people with air-conditioning and shade, while water transpiration signals received from the chips inserted into the plants were translated into live sound system.

The result is a platform where citizens and plants could interact in various ways. People could observe and touch the lower and upper surfaces, or listen to the sounds of plants while resting in the shade.

Interactive Balloon Surface

Exhibition

Collaborator Sooyeon Choi, Kiwon Jeon

Contribution: Research, conceptual and architectural design, all drawings in this portfolio

Competition: Seoulmaru Design Competition | Winner

Exhibition Seoul Hall of Urbanism & Architecture, Seoul, Korea Sep. - Nov. 2019

Interactive

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PROJECT

The collective form of the pavilion constantly changes shape according to the use of people. The balloons act as various urban furniture and create a festive atmosphere in everyday life. Citizens are invited to various experiences, such as taking a break, playing, or watching a large-scale performance. As a joint exhibition of the 2019 Seoul Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture, the ever-changing pavilion raises awareness of the newly opened exhibition hall while blending into the surrounding historical landscape.

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종류별 단면도

Balloon

The large helium balloon at the top needs sufficient buoyancy (10kg) to float stably, which makes it difficult to control it from below. To solve this, small balloons at the bottom were filled with water that weighs as much as the buoyancy of the larger one (10kg/n). These weights act as dampers when balloons are released, which allow for a variety of activities.

전기원

Balloon

Interactive

The collective form of the pavilion completes with the participation of citizens. From lighting and shade to toys and chairs, people can use and play with the balloons in their way.

The large helium balloon at the top needs sufficient buoyancy (10kg) to float stably, which makes it difficult to control it from below. To solve this, small balloons at the bottom were filled with water that weighs as much as the buoyancy of the larger one (10kg/n). These weights act as dampers when balloons are released, which allow for a variety of activities.

Surface

Surface

During the day, each balloon and the flock serve as shades and a background for festive events. At night, they light up when the wind blows or people pull them down. The overall shape of balloons becomes the roof of Seoul Maru, still not blocking the historic scenery behind.

During the day, each balloon and the flock serve as shades and a background for festive events. At night, they light up when the wind blows or people pull them down. The overall shape of balloons becomes the roof of Seoul Maru, still not blocking the historic scenery behind.

Plaki

Research & Exhibition

Collaborator Luke Rideout, Yoyojin

Contribution: Project leader, Research, Scenography, Game environment design

Open Call: Seoul Hall of Urbanism & Architecture What is to be Asked

International Open Call for Collaborative Research and Proposal | Oct. 2020 (Link)

Exhibition What is to be Asked

Seoul hall of Urbanism & Architecture, Seoul, Korea | Mar. - May. 2021

Huam Note, Seoul, Korea | Nov. 2021

Can strengthening local networks balance urban flows of resources and ideas? Covid-19 has caused massive readjustments of society, changing the ways we interact on a global scale. 'Plaki' explored the opportunities that this presents for building resilient forms of urban metabolism in our cities.

Taking into account growing issues of waste management (expedited by the pandemic) and the need for new forms of community interaction (focussing on hyperlocal scale) we sought to imagine ways of adapting to this new paradigm that create economic opportunities as well as a positive environmental impact.

By presenting the story in the format of a game, we hope to bring our research to life and encourage discussion around the themes we have been investigating. The game environment is a future image of Haebangchon we imagined. Each house is a unit that can be built and repaired by Plakimons, and building materials are recycled plastics collected from the village by Plakimons.

Seeking a Man Who Wants Enlightenment!

Scenography

Seoul Artists’ Platform New & Young

The scenographic project merges sustainability with art, focusing on the creation of a modern, modular shrine for an artist group. The design incorporates recycled old furniture, transforming these elements into a contemporary structure. Traditional knot strings, reminiscent of classic shrine aesthetics, are integrated within this adaptable framework. This endeavor was a collaborative effort between the artist group and the designer, showcasing a hands-on approach in both craft and construction. The shrine’s modular design features easy disassembly and reassembly, enhancing its versatility for use in various exhibition spaces. Post-exhibition, the structure was conscientiously recycled back into aluminum profiles and wood panels, underscoring the project’s commitment to sustainability. This approach not only demonstrates the project’s adaptability but also highlights a commitment to environmental responsibility, blending traditional motifs with modern, sustainable design practices.

Guanaco (2008-2029)

Personal Project

Coexist: Rethinking Zoos Competition

Collaborator Sooyeon Choi, Kiwon Jeon

Contribution: Research, conceptual and architectural design, all drawings in this portfolio

Anthropocene is over. However, this paradigm shift is impossible within zoo where the ecosystem of animals fundamentally relies on that of the human. We are therefore proposing a type of process to eliminate zoo.

There are two goals; the first is to take responsibility for the caged species evolved totally dependent, and wait for their natural distinction.

The second is to preserve the spatial characteristic of zoo as an archipelago in the city. The left spatial structure will be a record of past hierarchical order and a monument to the animals.

The process starts with closing the gates. Following the lifespan of diminishing inhabitants, moats with ramps are built to connect the emptied lots and the city fabric. As time goes by, the height and the width of the moats get smaller and wider to lessen inequality. Propagating portals redirect humans to wander around from the moats to the observation areas and then to the cages.

What left in Barcelona is a graveyard for animals. We still stare at the cages filled in with ourselves, not animals.

1. Basic structure of a gate, moat and ramp

2. Timeline of the zoo becoming a park

3. Park (former zoo) in the year 2118

4. Perspective through the gate