DAVID FOSTER WALLACE MICHIO KAKU SIGMUND FREUD EDWIN CATMULL PORTFOLIO D.W. SON COLIN ELLARD YUVAL NOAH HARARI DARON ACEMOGLU JAMES ALAN ROBINSON
Doowon Son Architectural Works
EDUCATION
WORK EXPERIENCE
UNIVERISTY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN | IL, USA Master of Architecture
August 2018 - May 2020
UNIVERISTY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN | IL, USA Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies
August 2012 - May 2018
COLLEGE OF FINE & APPLIED ARTS | CHAMPAIGN, IL Graduate Assistant -Responsible for 3D modeling on Rhino, editing autoCAD files, building study models, accurately analyzing site, and developing HACCP plans.
January 2020 - May 2020
KOLON GLOBAL CORPORATION | INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA Constructional Intern - Examined, classified, and transferred various types of constructional documents and field manuals into an online cloud-based server system - Analyzed common failures at the construction sites and provided solutions into accessible categories to prevent repeated failures in the future - Developed a tutorial presentation for 50 employees on how to use a newly established cloud database
July 2018 - August 2018
NOW ARCHITECTS | SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA Architectural Intern - Design Department -Produced 3D modeling works for design development and rendering using various software tools including Rhinoceros 3D, SketchUp, and AutoCAD. - Participated and contributed to weekly meetings for the schematic design process. -Assisted in developing various documents for a competition submission
May 2017 - August 2017
SKILLS
ACTIVITIES
SOFTWARE AutoCAD, Revit, Rhinoceros, Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Twinmotion HARDWARE Foam Cutter, Laser Cutter, 3D Printing, Woodshop LANGUAGE English, Korean, Bahasa Indonesia EDWARD C. EARL PRIZE / GRADUATE STUDIO DESIGN AWARD Honorable Mention - Spring 2019 INTERNATIONAL DEBATE SOCIETY President - Organized and facilitated weekly debate conferences for 20-30 students with various topics from politics to science, philosophy, etc. - Coordinated debate tournament every semester with professors and invited local professionals KOREAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION Active Member - Design Team Responsible for creating grahpic designs such as posters, brochures, and etc.
SELECTED WORKS 1. Mind Farm - Research Center | Chicago, IL Architecture as a data mining tool 2. Internet Haven - Internet Archive HQ | Toronto, Canada Architecture as a medium of democratic movement 3. Hotel 1984 - Boutique Hotel | Champaign, IL Exploring the limit of automation 4. Decalcomaine - Mixed Use | Champaign, IL An attempt to revive the prosperity of the stree 5. Digital Fabrication - Pavilion | Urbana, IL Building an actual scale pavilion with digital methods 6. Swivel Scene - Recreational Area | Oakwood, IL Extending the experience of a public park 7. Professional Works I Cooperative Fish Market Design Competition 8. Professional Works II Pop-up Store Design for the clothing subscription service
Mind Farm
Sensory Space Research Center FALL 2019 | ARCH 572 | Professor Suchi Reddy, Kevin Erickson Can an architectural project be a tool for a design tool for a greater outcome for the future? This design proposal was started by the question stated above. Distinguished Plym Professor, Such Reddy is an architect with her distinct design principle, “Form Follows Feeling.” For her studio under the Plym Professorship, the design prompt is to create a research center that hosts 5 sensory chambers; Water, Sound, Aroma, Nature and Light, for visitors to experience sensory experiences, to research neuroscience. The design approach was started by reading the history of the context, Goose Island, Chicago. A manmade island, heavily driven by the business purposes by the one of the most powerful man of Chicago at the time of construction. The artificial island was built for mainly two reasons; fasten the logistics of products from the northern area of Chicago to the south and establish industrial areas for brick manufacturing with the soil that was excavated from the construction of the canal
adjacent to the island. As a result, the island’s protagonists, the main habitants were illegal residents from Irish immigrants communities. The environmental condition of the site was horrified by the industrial factories on the island so intensively that the nickname of Goose Island at the time was a “little Hell.” As a response to the capitalistic and undemocratic history of the site, I decided to make an egalitarian gesture to the city that had made many lives suffered enough. Following the given prompt very strictly, the design proposal suggests relatively rapid experiences for the visitors. The circulation and sensory experiences are meant to be an instant movement, yet pleasurable and measurable by numeric means. The greater goal of the project is not for itself. It rather is for the possibilities this facility can attribute to the scholars and design practicers by stacking useful datasets of neuroesthetics responses to the spatial conditions and hopefully inventing an algorithm to make machine learn about value of feelings and aesthetics.
PROJECT 1 - PASS
Personal Architectural Sanctuary Space There are plenty of spaces to rest our bodies. Very few ones exist for our souls. If what sanctuary can provide us are already accessible, can it be still defined as a somewhere apart from where we are? I believe that a place should provide what are lacking but demanded. It must be a place where your soul rests. It is where you let your mind go on a dimension where it is not restricted. Current civilization’s closet guess on where one’s mind dwell is one’s brain. A brain works very closely to our thoughts and senses. Number of Neurons in our brain is astronomically countless. Our mind is structured based on limitless scale. Design concept that is aimed to enlarge and promote connections between physical surroundings and one’s mind will complete a true sanctuary for our minds.
PROJECT 2 - SSRC Sensory Space Research Center Site Analysis - Goose Island, Chicago - William Butler Ogden (1805-1877) - First Mayor of Chicago - Built a channel for his company, the Ogden’s Canal - Industrializedthe site - Created a park system in Chicago - Goose Island, “Little Hell” - Due to its highly polluted condition.
(Below Left) Green marks represent the area accessible to public parks. Red marks represent the opposite. Whilst, red dots represent the area that has habitants with bronchial diseases (Below Right) Map of Chicago before the construction of Goose Island
Lobby: 650 sf. Non-Gendered Restrooms: 750 sf. Five Treatment Chambers: 1200 sf. Each Meditation Space for 25 People: 1000 sf. Multi-Purpose Space: 1000 sf. Fiver Research Offices: 100 sf. Each Research Lab: 400 sf. Conference Room: 300 sf. Staff Restrooms: 100 sf. Pantry: 200 sf. Dining Space: 650 sf. Mechanical Space: 1000 sf. Maintenance Space: 1500 sf.
This design proposal is an attempt to inherit and redefine the early urban plan of Chicago, initiated by William B. Ogden; who made the current shape of Goose island in mid 1800s. The rectangular grid form of private gardening culture in 1800s is taken into the design proposal and pulled out of the ground to create extra spaces beneath its garden, which now is dedicated to the public. By adding curvature gesture to a rather orthogonal shape of the city, this proposal is aimed to arise the level of attention to the surroundings.
Site Approach Large outdoor public areas and decending element at the approach is a egalitarian message to the city and its history.
Section View Whilst this architectural design is being used as a medium to deliver a democratic message, it should look effortless inside.
Floor Plan
Chambers Sensory experiences are designed to record the responses numerically.
Internet Haven
Internet Archive HQ
FALL 2018 | ARCH 574 | Professor Tierney The biggest present the Internet has given us is the decentralizing and deauthorizing the power derived from the monopolization of information. Our society has truly escaped from the feudalistic hierarchical system by the informatization triggered by the Internet. However, the problem occurred by the appearance of giant IT corporates such as Google and Facebook which deliberately collect and privatize the information on the web to maximize their financial income. This phenomenon could potentially bring all of us back into the hierarchical society of the past. As an architectural solution to this matter, The Internet Haven is made to stands against the hierarchizing the Internet in both symbolic and functional senses. Suggested by the British architecture professor, Simon Unwin, in his book, “Analysing Architecture”, architecture is divided up into two types, ‘temple’ and ‘cottage’. The ‘temple’ replaces the uneven ground with a controlled surface as a foundation. (Unwin 88) It often uses foreign materials, stands above the landscape, protects its content from the exposed climate, in order to exhibit the creator’s power and authority. Another type, ‘cottage’, similar to
the ‘temple’. Also protects against climate, but for people and animals who inhabit within not for authoritative materials or dignity. It rather uses the materials nearby and aims to soaks into nature. In order to preserve the Internet’s equalitarian role in our society, I concluded that the place must represent both ‘temple’ and ‘cottage’ types at the same time. The place should be considered as important as a temple, but as humble as a cottage. In order to express this idea into architectural solution, The Internet Haven resembles both natural and urban landscape simultaneously by lifting up the ground as if it is a natural hill and carving out 4 different pathways to create a close relation to the quadrant grid massively shown in the urban city plan. Regardless of where the visitors from, the layout guides everyone equally to the center to enter any programs within the archive. As the visitors walk towards the center, the natural hill seam- lessly becomes an inhabitable artificial space. Connecting the smart city built by Google and the neighboring parks, with the Internet Haven as a medium, the place becomes an ambiguous boundary between nature and urban, private and public, or temple and cottage.
ur-Form: Developing geometry from structures found in nature
Structure of coral reef was chosen, as it is a living space for numerous types of marine lives
coral reef at a closer look
dead coral reef’s structure at an extremely close scale was selected for the final design inspiration
rebuild the structrure with vector lines on 2d
developed 3 Dimensional spaces using parameters
moved back on 4th dimension, time, where the original form was yet to be created
capture the moment of creation when the form was being peeled off from nothingness
model making with 3d printer
according to simon unwin’s book,analysing architecture, there are two archytypals; Cottage and temple the “cottage” is built of material around, incoperate with the site, whilst the “temple” uses forign materials, control the ground, shows off authority.
example of cottage (left) and temple (right) architecture. ironically, as shown on the right picture, the original internet archive building is one of the temple architecture. the main goal to accomplish for the new internet archive is to build a space that is fairly open to everyone, where the information of the world is accessible without any intervene nor hierarchical authority. Therefore, the schematic design was developed into non-authoritative manner with its massive scale. In order to achive the humbleness of cottage architecture, the design was focused to be emerged into the natural scene.
Stepped landscape
ada accessible landscape
mimicing the shape of hill with carved out paths
site context diagram
noise control
further from the center courtyard, the quieter the space becomes
program
each quadrant is holding different program inside; theater, non-stationary archive, stationary archive, and office-cafe (clockwise from blue).
model making: Oak wood with cnc milling machine
floor plans
Dance Studio
Kitchen Storage
Stage
Open User Space Reading Area
150 Seats
Restroom
Restroom
Mech. Room
Mech. Room
Lifelong Study Studio
Lifelong Study Studio Storage
Storage
Restroom
Restroom
OPEN TO BELOW
Lifelong Study Studio UP Stage
Lifelong Study Studio
Reception Area
Lifelong Study Studio
UP Lifelong Study Studio
OPEN TO BELOW
Public Computing Area
UP
UP
UP
OPEN TO BELOW UP
UP UP
Storage
Maker Space (7500SF)
OPEN TO BELOW
Maker Space (10300 SF)
0’ 15’
45’
105’
Maker Space(10300 SF)
0’ 15’
45’
105’
perspectives
DIGITAL FABRICATION Pavilion Spring 2019 | ARCH 571 | Professor Kevin Erickson The objective of the studio is to twist the design approach sequence. Realizing what technologies are avaiable exactly to help fabricating one’s imaginative design is very crucial as a architectural designer. In this studio, students were first trained to use several fabricational tools; Vacuum Former, CNC Machine, 5-axis Robot Arm, and 3D Printer, alongside the adequate softwares that operates them. Then, as a group, stuido members are currently building 1:1 scale pavilion that is to be installed around the campus.
(Above) Design proposal for the pavilion installation at the campus
rapid prototyping phase 1. hand-made box
phase 2. machine-made object (Grasshopper + 3d printer)
Exaggerating the drudgery of hand work
Exaggerating the mass-differentiation of computational work
phase 3. Brick design (T-Spline + Mastercam + CNC Router + Vacuum form + concrete cast)
Module Axon
redefining the brick into organic shapes with machines
phase 4. 5-axis Milled Object design (Grasshopperr + Mastercam (Robotmaster) + robot arm)
phase 5. free form finding (hot wire foam cutter + culinary art technique; Net cutting)
pavilion: digital fabrication
Pavilion design based on 3-dimensional points generated by voronoi pattern
fixture Base table
Adjustable stickers
Fixed plane
Support chair
grasshopper script for generating panel joinery automatically
assembly
Automation Boutique Hotel
Fall 2017 | ARCH475 | Professor Yi Yun Ki The project goal is simple and straight forward. It is to create a fully automated hotel that runs itself without human resources. To compete and stand out among the hotels in downtown, Champaign, the project is needed to have a clear theme. The project goal is to provide high-quality luxurious hotel rooms with comparatively lower price. To actually reach this ideal goal, the main theme of the project is set to make the hotel human-less, in order to reduce the cost of running business and enhance the quality of customer experience. Without human workers, the hotel will be generated by itself, automatically. The automation of building will not only help the financial issues, but also will take a huge part in maintenance of the building as well.
Urbanized Mass
Division
Slice Mass
Peel Off
Old + New
Ground Floor
2nd Floor
HVAC Distribution
2nd Floor - HVAC Distribution Plan Scale : 1’ = 1/16”
Mech. Room Guestrooms
Open Space
Guestrooms
Guest Room Floor
Guest Room Floor - HVAC Distribution Plan Scale : 1’ = 1/16”
HVAC Distribution
COM P
STOP
P
Photovoltaic panels Coverting sunlight directly into electricity by PV panels. They also provides shading area to the roof as well.
Exterior shading device Rotatable Vertical Louvers are attached to the facades of the buildings to adequately control the sunlight automatically.
Coping Air/Water Barrier Insulation with driange channels Anchor Metal Decking Insulating Glass Panel Batt Insulation Concrete Slab Formed Termination Panel
Geothermal heat exchanger It uses the earth as a tool to both heat and cool the temperature of the building.
Decalcomaine
URBAN MIXED-USE
SPRING 2017 | ARCH374 | Professor Hammaan Located in the middle of downtown, Champaign, IL The site used to be a crowded space once, long time ago, before the town was modernized. The site area is currently used as a parking lot to the neighboring buildings. However, due to the emptiness of the street nowadays, a parking area could be found anywhere around the place. The project goal is rather focused on gathering up people together into the area once again, by providing mixed-use building, which stands for both a commercial and residential purpose.
Site Surface
Extrude Area
Draw Axis
Mirror
Final Mass
To emerge into the existing society of Downtown, Champaign, with-out harming the ambience of the place and culture, design intention of this project was mainly focused on harmonizing with neigboring landscape and architecture. To maximize the smooth transition of new project to this town, main concept was set to “mirror” the style and shape of the buildings nearby. A term, “decalcomine” is best to de-scribe what literally is going on with this project briefly.
UP
Ground Floor
Office Floor
DN
Residence Floor
Swivel Scene KICKAPOO CAMPGROUNDS FALL 2016 | 10 Weeks | ARCH373 | Professor Emmons From developing understanding of the enviromental history to future potenials, the project aims to design facilities at Kickapoo State Park, IL.
Inspired by the attitude of obeying the nature, shown on the arrangement of the local infrastructures, such as highways, railroada and landscape plans, this project aimed its focus mainly on benefiting the existing nature to its maximum. Deliberately avoiding the constructions that might change the ambience of the nature, instead of building large portions of spaces to be accessible, rather, this project had discovered the possible spots that are already there on the site. Locating at the spots that can be cohesive with human and the nature, structures of the project arose from the ground without harming the harmony.
Placed a initial mass
Peperndicular Division
Aliging Spaces
Scenery Variations
Circulation
Sun Path - Winter
Sunpath - Summer
Busan Cooperative Fish Market Internship Work
Summer 2017 | NOW Architects | Seoul In the design team, as an intern, I experienced from the first day to the end of a whole competitional project, took in Busan, South Korea. Designing an one of the biggest fish market in the world, tasks I was assigned were various. Basic study of systems of fish markets all around the globe, site visiting and analyzing, building study models, 3D modeling, and documenting pages of the final report were the tasks I completed.
Examples of professional works as an design intern. (Upper right) Research data for the final report and designed a layout including diagrams and section views. (Lower right) Created 3D mass model of the site area, using Rhino 3D, for 3D rendering image processes.
Pop-Up Store
Freelance Work
Summer 2019 | Man’s Cabinet Man’s Cabinet is a clothing subscription provider in South Korea. I was asked to design on a schematic proposal for the company’s first offline pop-up store which is going to be used as a design standard for multiple shops at various department stores.
DOOWON SON The Illinois School of Architecture . M.ARCH 2020