esther cho
portfolio selected works 2014-2019 echo@mica.edu
CONTENTS
academic
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outdoor classroom
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construction through emotion
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christiansborg underground
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place-memory-historic
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aj manual
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xs block
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woodworking
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outdoor classroom Integrated Design, 2014 “uses materials to define purpose� This project aims to reinterpret outdoor classrooms. Each floor has its own purpose, and the materials chosen reinforce those purposes. The concrete first floor provides a private space for students. The second floor is public, a place where people meet and communicate. The horizontal glass wall framed with I-beams opens
Section Diagram
and lands creating a bridge to the adjacent bridge, transforming the third floor into an openair studio space.
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constructing emotion fr
Senior Thesis, 2017
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a formal system from which I generated forms. The resultant forms, shapes, and buildings all express my emotions during this time period. The differences in how people perceive their emotions is what makes this project uniquely my
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immigrating to the U.S., I organized my ideas into
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design process data to design space, framed the range of emotions I experienced after
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This project uses a data-driven, generative around personal discovery. By quantifying
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“a spatial exploration of self through abstract interpretations and metaphors of construction�
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Methodology
Mind Map The map charts my external and emotional expressions
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chronologically (by half-year) since 2004.
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2 - Map to Drawings
3 - Drawings to 3D space
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Map to Drawings a - map analysis Different interpretations of the Mind Map created emotional landscape. graphite and mixed media
b - Semiotics of Space Mark, color, pattern, and collages tranlate into forms and materials through the notation system. mixed media
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Drawings to 3D space
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a - spatial study Each spatial quality represents my own emotional narrative and formal representations of invisible parameters. mixed media
b - emotional landscape I developed the previous studies through a series of overlays and represented time physically at the scale of the human body. Emotional landscape in July through August 2016.
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Representational models No.1607 and No.1608
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Installation Physical representation of #3 spatial study
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ch ri sti a n s b o rg un de rgro u n d Urban Design Studio, 2016 “adding a new underground layer to sustain surrounding historic architecture values�
Historic areas exhibit a range of heritage values such as social, historical, and architectural. Therefore, the design quality of new buildings in a historic area is important. To minimize interruptions
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on the surface and retain the historic quality of the existing architecture, the underground pavilion provides new public spaces for outdoor exhibitions.
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The outdoor exhibition on Danish Democracy is located underneath
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the narrow translucent glass floor. Its transparent skin interacts with
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both daylight and artificial light. Light-diffusing polycarbonate tubes
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are located in between the frosted glass ceiling and the floor and
4 - Cafe
become a light installation at night.
5 - Ramp 6 - Indoor Exhibition
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Section The experience of walking down a long passageway triggers one’s curiosity and gives a unique experience.
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place-memory-history Integrated Design, 2016 “Historic Urban Form Mapping” Physical characteristics of town or cities result from the evolution of urban activities and planning. The following proposal is located within multiple Baltimore neighborhoods: Old Goucher, Station North, Bolton Hill, Mount Vernon, and considered the following questions: Why is the historical identity of a community and neighborhood important and how can you give substance to the historical identity of a place aside from simply creating and promoting neighborhood “brand”? What is the value of incorporating a historical analysis of neighborhoods such as this as a layer into the planning process for neighborhoods, communities, cities, and regions?
Site Map showing Neighborhoods
Site Study
Concept Design
Old Goucher Remington
Jones Falls Area Barclay
Reservoir Hill
Charles North
Greenmount
Bolton Hill
Mid-Town Belvedere
Scale: 1:250
Ebenezer Howard’s Three Magnets 1898
Scale: 1:125
Historically the neighborhood has been identified and strengthened by:
expanded district
- a strong educational and society legacy
current district
- an extremely adaptable and high quality building stock
stores
- inter-connected green spaces
school
- strong-defining yet strained edges
offices
- socio-economic and racial diversity
industrial
- a mixture of residential, commercial, and institutional uses
residence museum
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residential restaurant/cafe office and studio Indoor park vertical garden art gallery railroad museum community buidling
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design compeons near the same me and around the world, Danmarks Naonal Bank has a low number of compeon entries being a closed compeon. In relaon to other projects’ construcon mes, the Danmarks Naonal Bank also took much longer me to complete.
curtain wall principle, where the facade has been mounted to the building without being part of the load-bearing structure. This was a very innovave technique at the me. The curtain wall assembly is comprised of an embedded sunshade sandwiched between a venlated triple glazed skin.
“All an architect does is make spaces. It is the quiet and thoughul arrangement of these spaces that makes houses, neighbourhoods, streets and environments. Good architecture never shouts. Is it like a well-mannered lady that is polite to its neighbours. The order and progression of the street is more important than the individual building. In looking back over my work for the past twenty years it seems I have been obsessed with the quality of light. I am sll learning.” -Arne Jacobsen
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The Architecture The architecture comprises a low and a tall mass, surrounded by a one storey arne jacobsen manual high wall. The low part of the building, Integrated Design, 2016 with a public pavement garden, ensures that the 350-year-old Holmens Church adjacent to the west of the site is not “ architecture is a form of representation dwarfed by a dominant building complex. in itself ” The tall part of the building, facing Niels Juels Gade the east, maintains the A contemporary investigation of to Scandinavian original proporons of the area and Architecture starting from the lines traced ensures that Danmarks Naonalbank is in by its ancestors. This project focuses on harmony with the surrounding 19th representation within architecture and The building’s large century buildings. glass facades vary in appearance, ensuring a clear understanding of details depending on the weather and the me through digital drawings. of the day, and they integrate the surrounding buildings by reflecng them.
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The Compeon In 1961, the Denmark Naonal Bank invited five prominent architects of the me to take part in a compeon. The compeon was to result in a soluon whereby the Denmark Naonal Bank’s funcons could be gathered in one place, taking into account its central locaon with the Old Stock Exchange, Holmens Church, Chrisansborg Castle and various ministries as its neighbours. The proposal from Arne Jacobsen was preferred because it solved the programmac demands using a built floor area rao of almost half of that permied by the site.
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1600 The Architecture 1400 The architecture comprises a low and a tall mass, surrounded by a one storey 1200 high wall. The 1000 low part of the building, The Module with a public pavement garden, ensures 800 The Danmarks Naonalbank building that the 350-year-old Holmens Church adjacent to the600 west of the site is not consists of narrow module measuring building complex. 400 420 x 420 cm as the load-bearing dwarfed by a dominant The tall part of 200 the building, facing Niels structure, partly with a view to reducing Juels Gade to the east, maintains the 0 the construcon height and makingoriginal room proporons of the a area b andc d e f g for an extra story without the building ensures that Danmarks Naonalbank is in Number of Compeon Enres becoming taller than the neighbouring harmony with the surrounding 19th century blocks. The modules are visible both on buildings. The building’s large the facade and inside the building, glass (e.g. facades vary in appearance, depending on the weather and the me in the office corridors with double walls of the day, and they integrate the of cupboards, on panels and in the surrounding IT buildings by reflecng them.
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Collaboration with Zachary Green
The Site The building precisely respects the lines of streets that defines the block, it opens the potenal for the building to be included in the urban context and appears as a solitary element at the same me.
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Compeon is held for design of Denmark’s new naonal bank
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Demolion of exisng buildings on site
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Phase 1 construcon completed, occupied by April
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Phase 2 construcon started (southern half of tall building and poron of low building)
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Phase 2 completed and phase 3 construcon started (remainder of low poron)
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Phase 3 completed, complex is finished
ARCHITECT Arne Jacobsen PROJECT Denmark Naonal Bank
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The Site Relave Area of Projects The building precisely respects Floor the lines of streets that defines the block, it opens the potenal for the building to be included in the urban context and appears as a solitary element at the same me. a. Toronto City Hall by Viljo Revell
1961-1965 (75,890 m2) b. Sydney Opera House by Jorn Utzon 1959-1973 (18,000m2) c. Centre Georges Pompidu by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers 1971-1977 (45,000m2) d. The Royal Library by Schmidt Hammer Lassen 1993-1999 (20,733m2) e. Austrian Cultural Forum New York by Raimund Abraham 1992-2002 (7,574m2) f. Guggenheim Helsinki 2015 - present (12,200m2) g. Danmarks Naonal Bank 5 Banking Offices GROUND FLOOR 1965-1978 (48,000m2) 6 Suspension Cables
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houses, neighbourhoods, streets and environments. Good architecture never shouts. Is it like a well-mannered lady that is polite to its neighbours. The order and progression of the street is more important than the individual building. In looking back over my work for the past twenty years it seems I have been obsessed with the quality of light. I am sll learning.” -Arne Jacobsen
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Compeon is held for design of Denmark’s new naonal bank Demolion of exisng buildings on site Phase 1 (northern half of tall building) construcon started
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Phase 1 construcon completed, occupied by April
1971
Arne Jacobsen dies, architects Dissing + Weitling take over
1972
Phase 2 construcon started (southern half of tall building and poron of low building)
1976
Phase 2 completed and phase 3 construcon started (remainder of low poron)
1978
GROUND FLOOR Phase 3 completed, complex is finished
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xs bl o c k Digital Fabrication, 2015 “..aggregate form and converging ideas revolving around illustions and visual dynamics� Design process began with the idea of creating a block that could create complex patterns as a aggregate form and converging ideas revolving around illusions and visual dynamics.
Collaboration with Valeria Fuentes
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sc u l ptu re s Greenwood Working, 2016 “process of sourcing, refining, and working working with imperfections. �
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