Seonggeun Hur Portfolio 2021 by Seonggeun Hur

SEONGGEUN HUR Portfolio Email: sh4084@columbia.edu Phone: 5407509326

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Monument Monumeltal Monumentality

Wreckage of Progress Future Truckstop + ICE Truck Cemetary

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Atlas of Dust Dust analysis at Avery Hall

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Super Tall Skyscraper construction techniques

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Facade Detailing FRP installation detial for unique facade

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Urban Analysis & Data extraction

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Montessori School Expansion

Irregular Spatial optimization for irregular plots

New Urban Public Space

Solid space, Void space, Semi space

Circular Regression of Wreckage Spiritual stay + museum of forgotten things

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Chicago Riverfront Redevelopment

Threshold Between Urban Playground + Cemetery

Venice Film Festival

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Structural expression

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South perspective elevation drawing of ICE truck recycle center Representation about linear progression of transportation

Wreckage of Progress Future Truckstop + Ice Truck Cemettery Tahoe-Reno, NV, USA Michael Bell mjb92@columbia.edu

Academic Individual work GSAPP AAD Spring Semester 2021

From my personal interest of internal combustion engine, I started this project with diagrams of engines and structures of common personal vehicles that demand fossil fuel. The drawing, Angelus Novus by Pual Klee, and the quote under this drawing is by Walter Benjamin. From this comment about this drawing, I started to focus more on angel’s wandering, off-focused eyes that for me seems like having sympathy, or nostalgia about the situation what has been smashed by the storm called progress. From the personal interpretation of Angeuos Novus, I tried to illustrate my idea through one image of what we’ve lost from the shift of horse powered vehicle

industry to what we are going to lose from the shift in between ICE to Electric engine. And I started to diagram what types of emergence and extinction will occur at the intersection of two different generations. Next, I started to collect information of on-going transition and the initial stage of demolition from generation shift from the fossil fuel automobiles to the electric automobiles. The two intersections on this diagram shows the impact point of generation transitions that generates the raclage that will be left behind the progress.

North perspective elevation drawing of ICE truck recycle center

5 Diagramatic Research of Different Truck Stop

Intervention and renovation of new technology at traditional gas station Collision point diagram of technological progression

ICE truck stop gas pump layout

Electric truck stop charging station layout

I took phenomenological approach which would help me to understand different interpretations of symbolic objects of internal combustion engine period in different perspective of our future generations. So, I started to analyze the existing gas station and transforming them into future charging station for the semi-trucks. After one dimensional comparison in between current and the future truck stop, I started to move into three-dimensional analysis to illustrate the object that will be left behind and objects that will still survived from the wind called progress.

ICE truck stop surrounding layout

Electric truck stop surrounding layout

Moving from the diagrammatic analysis of the existing truck stops, I tried to translate the progress to simple architectural movement. Architecture with historic-nostalgic components must respond to what is current and relevant to his or her generation yet the response from the individual toward architecture should be multidirectional understanding from different generations, even with predicted response from the generations yet to be come through analogical reasonings with precedents.

Reminiscence of traditional gas station from rotation radius of freight truck

Collage of future truck stop at interchange of Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center Axonometric site plan of the new truck stop

Progess of recycling ICE truck along automatic conveyor belt in order

Circulation Strategy of the new truck stop alongside the I-80 interchange

Monumental ramp for ICE truck

Personal electric vehicle parking & glass dissamble core

Truck charging station & shell dissamble core

Formal expression of Progression - Wreckage diagram

First, single-linear box which represents the contemporary time sits on the ground. But the progress never lets the contemporary permanently stay where it is positioned, so this vertical movement introduces in order to move forward. Yet, wreckage from the progress generates disturbance of its vertical progress, thus the bottom of the form has been distorted, worpped, and anchored by the debries from the past. and this initial

transition become a monumental and permanent form that remembers the objects that were used to be leading the progress. In order to give maximized collective memory of the public which streghtnes the monumental space, I decided to position my building right above the interchange of I-80 to Tahoe Reno industrial center. Truck charging station & textile removal core

Truck charging station & structure removal core

Truck charging station & rubber removal core

Pre-analysis of Solid and Void on existing building

Roof Structure

First Tensile for Second Floor Second Tensile for Recycle Belt

Second Tensile for First Floor

I-80 Exit to TRIC

I-80 Express Way I-80 Entrance to the East

Platform for Recycle Machine Truss Structure for Heavy Equipments

Recycle Truck Entrance-Exit Recycle Truck Entrance-Exit

Axonometric section of complex circulation explanation

Core Structure

Self Standing CLT Shell

Exploded structure separation diagram of progression and wreckage

Floor Plan Level-1

Floor Plan Level-2

The future truck stop I proposed is more focused on commemoration of the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) trucks that is about distinct from the world and substituted by the new electric motor freight trucks. Entrance for both ICE trucks and electric trucks are equal, but after they pass the first curve, one circular ramp with monumental commemoration space will separate the ICE trucks from the other. Computerized monorail will guide the ICE trucks to the ramp, and by following the ramp, the truck will be dismantled in order of exterior to interior. Each part will be crashed and chopped into smaller size and will be organized based on the materials. These particles will now travel along the ramp connect to the recycle trucks are located, and will be delivered to the nearby reprocessing site or directly to the car manufacturing factory such as Tesla. On the other side, electric trucks will be also guided by the monorail, and travel to the designated parking spots. Parking system and traveling out system will all auto piloted and the driver does not need to worry about the minimum turning ratio since every turn will be made by the computer system. To the second level, hotels that are suspended to the structure will welcomes both truck drivers and tourists and entire level will have a view toward the recycling ramp to commemorate the distinction of the ICE trucks.

Recycle Spiral

Suspended Hotel-Motel

Automated Recycling Factory

Monumental Spiral For ICE Engine

Long side section perspective and detail zoom-in

13 Roof Solar Panel

Roof Truss System

Ceiling Panel

Suspended Hotel-Motel

Suspended Louver System

First Tensile Structure

Second Floor

Recycling Rail

Glass Panels

Physical Joint - Second Tensile Structure

First Floor-Truck Parking Truss System for Heavy Equipment

Recycle Spiral to the Ground

CLT Structural Shell

West elevation view from I-80 of new truck stop

Urban threshold collage in between the demolition

Threshold Between Public Playground + Cemetery Central Park, NY, USA Karla Rothstein kmsr@latentnyc.com

Academic Individual work GSAPP AAD Summer Semester 2021

Relating oneself to unrelated individuals’ death is possible in select situation. The 9/11 memorial is a place for the public to immerse in the situation even if someone was born after the incident. Regardless to the visitors’ background, they do feel sympathy to the people who have been passed away by this incident by experiencing the space and touching people’s name on the concaved panel. he scale of the impact is not about the number of deaths, but more about the event’s social impact or wound in the public’s shared memory. Catastrophic disaster of 9/11 has casualties of 2,996 and inherited public sympathy about this incident is continuously

generated among society, yet annual death count of New York City for 50,000 people has only commemorated by the relatives. Furthermore, initial commonly used graveyard system not only interrupts to feel the sympathy of unrelated death but also gives negative intimidations to the public that people to avoid the cemetery. Yet, every place we live has the circulation of the life and the death, but the ring has been disconnected and concealed by the social threshold.

Exploded axonometric drawing of death circulation at the new playground/public park

Single object with deformed thresold by gravity

Single object with penetrated thresold in angle by gravity

Existing site condition and key features that are currently in high demand

Single object with vertical penetration by gravity

This model with multiple overlapped distorted surfaces gives unique experience that transfers the social impact to the physical space to the public where they can relate themselves to the death of unrelated. Yet, due to the scale and construction methods of this model, it cannot be assured that this form will work. I started with a surface simulator to testify the surface tension and its critical point generated by the mass. This first was about testing the maximum

distance of distorted surface. However, in this condition, only a single point touches the ground which cannot be physically constructed. Following by observations from the several physical and virtual experiment of surface, I ended up with the captured surface right after the mass has pass through the surface, that touches the ground more than any other experiments. The image on the right shows the structural solution with the gridded surface that I have generated.

Connectivity difference of Hart Island and Central Park

4 major roads with thresold deformation at Central Park

Slelecting potential site at the end of W 96 and 97 st

Sitel plan and roof plan of the new urban cemetery

Ground level floor plan and panel burial site

Section drawing facing south-west with interior detail

Section drawing of structural threshold trees from the ground to the roof plaza area

Section perspective drawing of interior space for the cremation and gathering place

Bone powder panel cladding - decomposing time period and circulation diagram

Death circulation diagram within the new cemetery

Three alkaline hydrolysis chambers with amphitheaters provide the space for commemoration, and the bone powder after hydrolysis is cast as a panel that fits to the structural CLT system of the project, generating unique sunlight conditions in the underground park. Cladding panels made out of bone powder-amalgam will begin to degrade in one year, and those panels will be circulated to the ground by the staff. These ground panels will fully decompose, returning to nature within the

next year. Diagram above indicates the potential pattern change along the time. Row 1 shows the first 1 -1.5 year aftert the construction, not a lot of panels on both the structure and the ground. Row 2 shows the dramatic increase of panels after 1.5 years of construction due to time requirement for decomposition. Row 3 indicates the stablized pattern of panels after certain point of time period, balancing between the decomposition and the structure panel.

New cemetery view from the Central Park bridge side

New slide for substitution of the current playground

Street level view from 96th street toward the entrance

Death is something that should not be concealed from the public. This project is a new type of public space at the W.96th Street entrance to Central Park mixing two contrasted programs, playground and cemetery. This public park combined with the features of playground and cemetery impacts public awareness of stranger’s deaths by intertwining these two programs on the same site. Programmatically, this project aims for the public to engage delightfully with death by visiting this playground-park without prejudicial opinions that cemeteries should be isolated from public space.

Roof public space view looking down to the main plaza area

Major entrance from 97th street with water fountain as a playground feature

Spiral stair view with the bone powder panel cladding

The project’s morphology and thresholds separate and combine these two water-oil like programs with enhancing both. Redesigning the former playground features, water amenities and the alkaline hydrolysis procedure are co-dependent, and a slide connects the overground structure to the underground park reflecting the bisectional side of human life: youth and death. The site’s existing trees will be relocated within the project to convey continuity to the public.

Bird eye view of new development around abandoned train track

Circular Regression of Wreckage Spiritual stay + museum of forgotten things Elini, Sardinia, Italy

International competition Individual Young Architecture Competition

Elini, a town with magnificent natural scenery alongside the western branch of Sardinian Mountain Belt that started out as a living organism since the prehistoric era, as a sleeping machine of less than 500 households with the interwoven local interactions throughout the neighborhood scale, has slowly diminished its interaction with the other cities in Sardinia. The railway infrastructure that used to connect this small village with steam engine locomotive has now stopped serving passengers. This train track designed in mid-19th century contains small rotation radius and frequent sharp turns that follows the beautiful hillside of Elini and other small neighboring cities and towns

to avoid the high construction cost of punching tunnel across the mountains, yet not suitable for the contemporary locomotives with faster average operation speed. This anachronistic infrastructure has remained imperturbable across the center of Elini and the rusted surface of the train track imprints the continuous horizontal line of wreckage produced by the rapid wind of progress. This is opportunity for architects to discover a new mutability from the once mono-functional infrastructure of the locomotive industry, and its capacity as a social infrastructure for the locals and the visitors.

Interior render of cabin unit toward Elini Scenery

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First, we started with the vertical menhir form to consider as new circulation of the existing stiff surface condition and the disconnected site condition. Singular mass of menhir has divided into two to respond to respect the existing circulation. After that, menhir has been remodified as a constructible building mass yet contains the essence of the menhir.

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Existing Pedestrian Road

Facade Strategy Façade brick system has been inspired by Nuraghe’s irregular stone construction. Unlike the ordinary brick wall system, we took out step further and introduced gentle openness gradation that goes lighter toward the ground to dilute the massive gestures to the small town. This unique façade system will shimmer across the town during the night time.

Major Vertical Circulation

Route SP23

Regular brick pattern

Patterned brick facade for gentle transition from the existing urban condition

Exploded axonometric drawing for facade strategy exposure and circulation between new and existing urban infrastructure

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Unique form with complex brick façade condition has been thoughtfully considered with realistic structural understanding. Thick concrete beam over the building mass functions holds the glass façade with a curtain wall system. Every brick row is fused with the steel bracket to ensure the structural stability of the evenly stacked brick façade. Glass block roof allows penetration of the natural light that shines 30 meter down to the ground level.

C. Outdoor Exhibition and Hotel 2

A. Parking and Utility Space for the local and the visitors 1. Start of the Railway 2. Ordinary Walk 3. Outdoor Exhibition 4. Hotel/Cabin 5. Vertical Circulation + Indoor Exhibition 6. Public Plaza + Office + Cafe

outer brick 1 2

Steel Bracket

Commercial Space

Outdoor Exhibition with Vernacular plants and nature.

Circulation

Site plan and site strategy

View Frame Curtain Wall Mullion

Joint between Curtain Wall and Structure

Floor plans of specific buildings

Section perspective drawing of vertical circulation building

Section drawing of three different buildings

Existing Road The building on the highest point of the site has access to the Via Serra e Masongiu, the road directly connects to the national road Via Lanusei, a major road that connects the neighbors near Elini.

Existing Railway Roof Garden

Connectiion Bridge

Main building right next to the train track interweaves different hotel buildings around the site.

Hotel only building that has unique condition, entrance at the top of the building from the train track public space level. Each level is designated to a single group of visitors to allow everyone who visits this place to have access to the beautiful scenery of the Elini.

The major part of this building contains the artifacts of forgotten periods to generate deeper empathy of wreckage with the visitors.

Panoramic view of the new rail way development at Elini from the route SP 23

At the center of the building, it has large open space for the public exhibition and enclosed plaza for social engagement with the locals and visitors.

Vertical Circulation + Exhibition Provides the public vertical circulation to the train track level with both elevator and stairs which are located at the center of the building with the roof aperture for the natural light.

General Strategy Instead of redeveloping the abandoned train station site at the center of the town where has the most connectivity, we have discovered that the south side of Elini where Sardinia route SP 23 enters has been disconnected by two factors, steep angle of the mountain surface and the existing railway. Due to the existing site condition, unoccupied space has naturally blocked the horizontal connectivity of the south side of Elini. By introducing vertical circulations enclosed with architectural envelope to connect the landscape of Elini’s separation due to steep slopes and unused railroad tracks, at the same time, by creating squares and open-air museums along the railroad tracks, the forgotten railroad tracks, new memories will emerge from the new urban development. Perspective view of the rail way park-museum at night

NYC vacant plots due to unoccupiable shape

Irregular Spatial optimization for irregular plots Machine learning Danil Nagy danilnagy@gmail.com

Academic Group Work GSAPP Technology Elective

Machine learning optimization dashboard with Discover program

Small, irregularly shaped lots are abundant in New York City, and in residential districts they are often left vacant due to the awkward corners, narrow spaces, and limited square footage (less than 2000 square feet). Often, too, these irregular lots are located directly adjacent to existing buildings, restricting a designer’s opportunity to implement proper light and air. We asked ourselves, if we had to design the floor plan for a lot like this, what would we want to be solved or automated for us? One design factor we discussed was the issue of natural light and ventilation. New York City building code states that “every habitable room shall be provided with natural light”(NYC 1968 Code, Vol

1, Subchapter 12, Article 3). Therefore, we knew we wanted to find a way for the computer to optimize a program plan according to each room’s need for access to light and/or air, while maintaining certain adjacencies. Our project uses Grasshopper, Discover, and Python to generate these steps of the design process computationally and to identify ideal scenarios.

Comprehensive overview of the computational design process

Program breakdown and regulations of light and air according to NYC Building Code

We split the floor areas using four curves, knowing that the number of spaces created would be one more than this number, giving us our five rooms. We used Python to run this split recursively according to our set of parameters, while Discover would work to optimize three things: room ratios, façade adjacencies, and squareness of rooms. As discussed earlier, from the beginning it was important to us to make sure that the living rooms and bedrooms all were able to receive natural light in compliance with the New York City Building Code. This meant that these rooms would need to share at least one side with an exterior wall curve. The way we addressed this issue was by extracting room areas from our subdivided spaces, then constraining the three largest room areas to be adjacent to the exterior

wall curves. This works because we have defined the three largest room ratios as our “habitable” rooms, so without stating that a living room needs light and bedrooms need light, we still always end up with the living room and bedrooms having access to the exterior due to them having the largest room areas. One issue we ran into in the process of subdivision is that we were getting rooms which technically met our requirements for ratios and façade adjacencies, but they were not occupiable spaces; for example, we would get rooms that were 3ft x 20ft, which is clearly not realistic. Thus, we knew we needed to control the “squareness” of rooms. By minimizing the difference in lengths for each segment along the room boundary curve, we are able to ask Discover to optimize this parameter as an objective. Once we had our manual inputs in place, we then used Grasshopper to idealize the plot shape for rooms by identifying angles of each plot corner, and chamfering any given corner that does not meet the minimal threshold of 50 degrees. This step allows for more ordinarily shaped rooms, mitigating awkward and unusable space. We also knew that distinguishing party walls versus exterior walls would be important for us in order to place programs with respective adjacencies for window openings. Because the plots we are dealing with hover around 1,700 square feet, we created a set of five programs to implement a two-bedroom apartment for each plot: living room, bedroom 1, bedroom 2, kitchen, and bathroom. The living room and bedrooms are all considered “habitable” spaces and thus need to be located along exterior walls. In Grasshopper we were able to shatter the plot boundary using the context polylines in order to create the distinction between which parts of the plot we can have window openings on and which parts are solid party walls.

Floor plans drawn by designer based off of Discover’s optimized floor plans

Placing egress along party walls Next we placed the egress, which involved the consideration of two things: centralizing the location of the stairs for safest and easiest path of egress, then shifting the stairs against a party wall so that we don’t lose valuable space along exterior walls. We located the stairs centrally by establishing a connection between the starting point of the stairs which we had defined, and the geometric center of the plot. From there, we moved the stairs along a party wall by ensuring the exterior points of the stairs moved to points along the nearest party wall curve. Moreover, we wanted to bring into consideration the thickness of the exterior wall because it directly affects the amount of square footage a designer has to work with. We achieved this step by offsetting the plot boundary by a generic dimension of one foot and trimming with the stair boundary, however the one-foot dimension can be adjusted as needed for whichever type of building construction a designer chooses. Resulting floor areas

Optimized floor plans from Discover

Wind simulation result from two major directions at the north facade of Avery Hall

Avery Hall north facade Lidar scanning result

Atlas of Dust Dust analysis at Avery Hall Lidar Scanning Jorge Otero-Pailos jo2050@columbia.edu

Academic Group Work GSAPP Summer Workshop

This workshop our team focused on document, analyze and interpret the atmospheric pollution that is encrusted on the building facades of the Columbia campus. We achieved an understanding of existing buildings as long-term passive environmental sensors that can give us clues to past microclimates. Our group work in and out of the Preservation Technology Lab, in collaboration with the CyArk Foundation, which is specialized in the 3D capture of heritage sites, data processing, and creating immersive experiences that convey the power of built heritage. Our main focus of was to map, document, isolate and visualize in 3D the layer of dust encrusted on building facades with

recognition of discernable patterns of how the dust settled on the facades. From the research we analyzed dust patterns that inform us the history of the weather and environmental pollution. In last, we predicted the building as long-term environmental sensors encrypted with valuable material data about pollution.

Wind directions analysis around the Avery Hall

Dust research methodology

Wind simulation -EDDY 3D procedure

NYC vacant plots due to unoccupiable shape

Super Tall Skyscraper construction techniques

Nicole Dosso nmd2155@columbia.edu

Academic Individual Work GSAPP Technology Elective

This course was about the seminar on Super-Tall building typology. We started with following an analytical approach by dissecting individual building components and their interrelationships to teach other to build a comprehensive understanding of how Super-Tall buildings behave from the early examples at the turn of the 20th century in Chicago and New York onto today’s global Super-Tall towers, skyscrapers have been at the forefront of technological innovations in architecture, engineering and construction industries. I learned advancements in skyscraper fields such as vertical transportation, structural system, curtainwall, wind tunnel, environmental engineering and construction;

and has forced an ongoing discourse and evaluation of building codes. These two drawings are the essential structural and mechanical/engineering plans of super tall buildings to understand how does super tall structure can stand still against severe weather conditions with unique variables that are not considered at smaller or shorter building designs.

Personal super tall building structure and MEP analysis

Rennovated Loew’s Canal Theater facade from the street

Facade Detailing

FRP installation detial Kevin Schorn kls2233@columbia.edu

Academic Group Work GSAPP Technology Elective

The subject of this course is the detailed design of building cladding through an understanding of materials and their physical properties. This project was focused on what the consequences and opportunities are of their design choices for the exterior cladding of a building at a construction document level of resolution. We researched specific detail conditions of our building to facilitate a proper understanding of everything involved at the interface between the interior and exterior environments and the other necessary building systems. Throughout the research on different constructions and methods based on material could allow us deep understanding of many different cladding

materials and what it takes to remain in command of the entire building process from design concept to constructed work. I focused on researching cladding materials and understanding all physical properties (basic, mechanical, thermal, environmental, etc.) as well as manufacturing and construction limitations and processes.

Axonometric drawing of detailed facade model

Detail 2 Glass Mullion Tinted Glass Existing Roof

Detail 1 Detail 6

Detail 5

FRP Joint

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Roof-Glass joint at Curtain Wall

Detail 2

Custom Angled Mullion

Detail 3

FRP Joint detail to structure

Detail 4

Ball Joint between curtain walls

Detail 5

Existing masonry-glass joint

Detail 6

FRP Joint with angled insulation wall

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Steel truss system-glass mullion joint

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Steel truss system-glass mullion end

Existing Theater Interior Decoration

Fiberglass Reinforced Panel Aluminum Curtain Wall System Insulation

Detail 3

Interior Wall Ceiling Cable Ceiling Panel Floor Deck Concrete Floor Slab H Beam

Detail 4 Steel Truss Structure

Tinted Glass

Detail 7

Full section detail drawing of our selected studio project

Precedent projects and their façade system details will be dissected and understood. Me and my teammate employed the new knowledge toward developing cladding details for a previous studio project or any other project which is at a level of design such that typical façade section and plan details can be developed. Details will be sketched by hand and once a solution is found, the details will be drawn accurately in two-dimensions with the option of

augmenting the representation with a three-dimensional drawing. Emphasis will be placed on thinking through sketching as well as how to draw and annotate clear and legible drawings. The final deliverable will be detailed drawings as well as a model/prototype of the condition or a portion thereof to clearly communicate the design and how it works. Actual materials or close representations will be considered to be used in the models. South elevation of rennovated theater facade

Site location for theater pavilions at Venice

Monument Monumental Monumentality Venice Film Festival Thesis Project A Monumental Experience Aki Ishida aishida@vt.edu 917-514-1653

Academic Individual work 5th year 2018/08-2019-05

It is widely acknowledged that the word Monumental indicates an object which has phenomenal size or scale compared to prevalent of its originals. But the word Monumental or Monument is derived from Latin word Monere which signifies ‘to remind’, or ‘memory’. From this misconception on the real intention of the word Monument in our society, I inquire back to the world, what is the meaning of Monument-Monumental-Monumentality in architecture. This project derives from a series of analysis of existing monumental buildings, in the end, redefines a true Monumental Building by introducing new theater pavilion and new main theater building for Venice Film

Festival where provides more opportunity to individual/artistic directors than commercial film makers, this festival has been experienced declination of visitors. The program of film festival itself requires large volume of space (theaters) and large amount of public interaction which reciprocate the former research about essential elements for contemporary monumental building. Therefore, I decided to propose architectural solution to rejuvenate Venice Film Festival by designing multiple theaters throughout monumental consideration.

Initial sketch of a monumental building

Existing Monumental Building Analysis

Existing Monumental Building Analysis - Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

In the location where one of the biggest cargo building has been built on the tip of the small peninsula at the port, Hamburg government brought a building which would be the new cultural center. Herzog and de Meuron was selected to design a new multifunctional concert hall combining residential units with an architectural idea, a building on the basis of the city-reflection toward past, modern and future. The architects decided to give a new life to the existing building instead of demolishing it since the time that building occupied that space was long enough for the public to generate collective memories. The new building on top of the massive brick storage is covered with high-reflective warped glass panels in order

to reflect the original city’s skyline. This material contrast between the old and the new building preserves the original building’s monumental value which produces stronger architectural monumentality amalgamating with the new additional public building. Furthermore, each large opening on the new building faces other monumental buildings in the city, anchors down the new building without incongruity to the historic cityscape, and form of the roof that resembles the sky helps to naturally blends in to the city even though it is the tallest building in the city.

Existing Monumental Building Analysis - Pompidu Center Paris

The Pompidou Center in Paris, designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, is not a remarkable building nor a classical building compare to other famous landmarks like the Eiffel Tower, Notre-Dame Cathedral, or the Louvre Pyramid. It is a building with exoskeleton steel structure to create structureless space for open program. Unlike traditional buildings, even pipes and elevators, which were supposed to be hidden behind the walls and structure, have been exposed and interweaved within the giant

steel structures. And the building’s strong monumentality comes from this main idea of this building, a structureless space for public. This building is not tangled with specific program by architectural order, which brings public to decide to assign various program within this building. This heterogeneous program generates diverse experience for public that attracts people continuously and becomes a place where various collective memories has been shared by people who live/visit Paris.

Existing Monumental Building Analysis - Pompidu Center Paris

Existing Monumental Building Analysis - Compare Two Different buildings

The most important aspect to be considered as monumental building is public space. This is the essential idea that directs other architectural elements in order to become a transcendental space/building across generations with collective memories from visits to the building. Structural challenges followed by architectural decision for a predominant public space is another common feature. Moumental building - Public program

Monumental building - Structural challenge

Monumental building - Alienness facade

Monumental building - Single enlarged public space

Monumental building - Uninturrupted main entrance

Collage of historic buildings in Venice with unique streetscape and canals to illustrate diversity of Venice in perspective view. Gently layering contemporary buildings that qualifies my monumental building analysis and stitch historic and modern aspect with common medium, wood, to visualize the monumental building of Venice Film Festival.

Collage of monumental building of Venice Film Festival on Venice

Monumental Collages of possible solution for Venice Film Festival

Temporary theater pavilions which are located at the major campo in Venice generates the interest about the Venice film festival from the visitors. Exposed structures of the pavilion that are made with wood interweaves in between historic campo’s façade and the theater pavilion itself. Consecutive indirect exposure of theater pavilions in Venice will generate the collective memories of Venice Film Festival.

Collage of scattered theater pavilions of Venice Film Festival on Venice

Theater Pavilion in Venice

To meet the five categories that I have listed from the previous monumental building analysis, I first took on a challenge with structures that can be unique and also create public space under or above the building. The structure follows the pure form of the pavilion which has been designed based on movements of people. The structure, exposed gently beneath translucent skin, becomes identical parametric façade design on every side of the building, yet it can be easily assemble by volunteer.

Location diagram of popular campos and spatial openness

Exploded axonometric diagram of theater pavilion

Diagram of water connectivity in between islands that contain large campo

Perspective view of theater pavilion

Each pavilion is responding to the situation of surroundings that helps to immerse within historic buildings yet the buildings alienate themselves by not having a facade. The form of the building has been articulated by people traveling through, and the building rotates to insure enough daylights and views from nearby buildings and historic sites. Hence, each pavilion does not stand out from Venice historic cityscape inharmoniously, yet still gives uniqueness to public, overwhelming impression about Venice Film Festival. These theater pavilions are connected by the scattered telephone booth like flim pods which located along the tourists’ shortest pathways in between piazzas. Two types of film pavilions correspond to each other in order to direct tourists to Lido Island.

Perspective view of theater pavilion

Various combinations of small theater pavilion

Individual Theater Pods in Venice

Locations of small-scale theater pavilions along the pathes

The concept of a theater pavilion is that of a single structure which can be occupied by people freely. As they encounter the pavilions during their strolls through Venice, they experience the short films which are selected by the Venice Biennale that cannot be officially screened on 100-200 seat sized theaters to maintain the artistic and non-commercial heritage of the Venice Film Festival. People will randomly face these pavilions scattered around Venice, which will increase their awareness of the film festival that lead them to visit Lido Island. Locations of attactions in Venice

5 Closest attractions from hotel

Hierarchy of different attractions

Structure of small theater pavilion

Venice Lido Film Festival’s main building was designed mainly based on monumental qualities with the intension of filmic qualities. By rendering shots of the main theater with the monumental aspect that I have discovered, I delivered the essence of monumentality that concludes theater pavilions on Venice main island.

For the Main Theater Building, I believe that structural challenges should be the most outstanding part among the other monumental aspects that I have discussed previously in order to have coherence between theater pavilions in Venice. So, I tested out several iterations to show what type of overhanging superstructure will be the best choice at the site next to existing Venice Film Festival main theater where it has been vacant for temporary theater space every year. Among other experiments, minimal space corresponds the best for both theater and monumental quality. Minimal space is an idea that has been generated by parametric calculation about connecting two separate non overlapping surface with minimum space. This gives maximized open space for public that can be highlighted with exoskeleton structure hovering above. Main structure has been constructed with different layers of steel trusses and columns following the form of the minimal space structure that represents the light that come out from the projector in theater. Then the

distilled light throughout the structure will be projected on the ground and movie theaters that highlights the importance of light in film history. To maintain its historical value of neighboring building, each theater has been designed to be very simple cubic box with marble panels to have material connection yet, has been positioned variably to show its unique façade design. Roof of the theater space also utilized for public to walk, and prospect Atlantic Ocean at elevated level to give unforgettable memories not only from movie, but also from architecture itself.

I see the lights in every space, contour structures, and leaves monumental shadows

Foreshadowed vertical pathways with wood and glass give monumental depth on facade

Contrast in between theater and foyer by having clean versus alienated structure for indication

Continuous structure interweaves throughout from the pathways to different theaters

Cantilevered space for amphitheater covered with scattered panels to depict the unique moment

Continuous non-column entrance has been translated into two different way, one in continuous circulating stairs and 4-floorhigh escalator that brings people to their destination. Both long entrance systems have been embedded inside the minimal space roof structure that gives structural stability and monumental experience.

Site location of riverfront redevelopment

Chicago Riverfront Redevelopment New Urban public Space Team project, group of 2 Chip Von Weise chip@vonweiseassociates.com 312-337-5511

Academic Every process of design 4th year 2018/01-2018-05

This project develops unoccupied spaces at the junction of Elston Ave and N Cortland St in Chicago, one of sites where Sterling Bay owns for urban developing project called Lincoln Park. Our studio project design proposal includes residential tower, commercial tower, parking space, and retail spaces with 35% of opening on this site throughout the integrated design process. Site has various surrounding conditions include Chicago River, historic bridge, heavy traffic roads and Bloomingdale Trail. Future neighborhoods on this site will be

high-density residential/commercial area, we found design opportunities to create new monumental public space for not only our site, but also our future neighborhoods. In this project, we are looking for the space that creates its own livability by itself throughout separating and connecting different programs for the public not only around the plaza space but also entire city. The project was mainly focused on the mix-use tower and its techtonics.

Elevation of urban development from riverfront

From the analysis of symbiosis between public and private space, we found a space where it reacts like buffer zone. We named this space as ‘Semi Space’, where space communicates and separates public and private space simultaneously, without physical obstacles. From several famous public place, Semi Space was retail stores, restaurants on the ground floor and small corridors that leads to public plaza. We brought exactly same concept, and started to sketch diagram about semi space, and tried to figure out how and where should be use semi space as architectural strategy to achieve symbiotic experience throughout the entire site.

We defined our semi space as enclosed public space in architectural term, and started to layering out different programs (public plaza, semi space, private space) on out site. We decided to have a large semi space on the junction point of Cortland and Elston to celebrate the most populated area in our site. Every passageway toward our site and public plaza must pass by semi space where it located along our site circumference. Also by opening up riverside walk toward our site directly, we let public flow on north industrial corridor redevelopment’s public band smoothly flow into our site.

Our project requires 35% of open space, and around 500,000sf for both residential and commercial area. But according to our idea, we do need more open space than 35% due to plaza space and public space for entire site, we opened about 50% of our site, and make other buildings taller to match the required square foot. We placed residential tower and hotel tower along the junction of the Elston and Cortland, and other two commercial towers along one in Elston, and one in Cortland. All residential and commercial towers are on the 3 floor high retail space. We also designed giant staircase and entryway from 606 through cultural center which has about 100,000sf floor area.

Site plan of riverfront Chicago

There are two major passageway from the outside of our site to our plaza, one from the junction point of Elston and Cortland, and the other one from 606, where Metra station will be connected. Compare to other passageway, we celebrated those two main passageway as a part of semi space design. Level change on our site is very significant. Street level is 12’ higher than plaza level which gravitates people town to our site without artificial force, and make our plaza space as a place where everyone wants to visit, or stop by without any reason. Also, by changing level, we could have 2 ground level, directly connects to the pedestrian level, which utilizes retail space along the roads.

Mixuse skyscraper massing diagram

Public movement diagram around the construction site

Two major side which is Elston and Cortland, and 606 extension highlighted as public entrance edge

Put one of our semi space, retail space along Cortland and Elston, and pull 606 extension out toward our site.

Private spaces placed on the retail space, to achieve design goal of semi space.

For the residential tower massing, we did various iteration to get the best semi space toward our plaza space while it can be constructible, and designable without breaking harmony around our site. So first we split our one tower to two different towers by most populated passageway to our plaza, and rotate half of the each tower to cover main passageway and create semi space. After

that we smoothen out right angle edges to curve, and lower the left tower so luxury condo units on right tower can have panoramic view of Chicago. In the end, we flatten out each floor into orthogonal form, to give balcony space to every unit so that balcony itself also can behave as a buffer zone in architectural scale.

Split different size of passageways depend on different level of population density to our site.

Rotate private towers to create ‘enclosed’ space, which makes different from just public space to semi space.

Floor plan - piazza level

Floor plan - street level

Floor plan - floor 5-10

Floor plan - floor 20

Floor plan - floor 25

Floor plan - floor 31-40

Exploded axonometric drawing of mixuse tower

Sustainability of mixuse tower relate to waterfront

Southwest elevation of mixuse tower

Vertical louver system and impact on residential area during different period

Structural detail section - floor 15-28

Structural detail section - floor 4-14

Section-elevation of mixuse tower from Southeast

Structural detail section - floor1-3

Urban solid-void diagram at Almeria

Solid Space Void Space Semi Space Urban analysis & Data extraction Almeria, Spain Marie-Isabel Monseignat-Lavrov Marie.Monseignat@aaschool.ac.uk +44 (0) 7813 123 710

Academic Individual work 4th year 2017/08-2017-12

This project is mainly about the various definitions of solid and void in different situations and discovering a new architectural term, the semi-space. At the beginning, students were randomly assigned two different modern buildings in London. This exercise was mainly focused on discovering each students’ topic through existing buildings and analyzing the information they found throughout drawings and models. Studio project’s site was located at Almeria, Spain, and first process of the project was urban analysis based on what I have discovered from previous

building analysis, solid and void of the city. Based on the urban analysis of Almeria, I have decided to construct a new city port at the waterfront of the city in order to eliminate the disconnection in between downtown area and waterfront area by current port that only uses for very limited period. This new city port is mainly focused on the programmatic separation in between solid void and semi space.

Almeria New Waterfront Cityport

Pre-analysis of Solid and Void on existing building

Model photo of brunswick center solid and void analysis Diagram of solid, void, semi solid, semi void of Brunswick center

Model photo of brunswick center solid and void analysis

The Brunswick Center is one of the most famous brutalism building in London, designed by Patrick Hodgkinson. I selected Solid and Void as my tools to analyze building. I defined solid and void by amount of light in specific space, and I also found that some spaces which cannot be categorized either solid or void like corridor or pilots. These sets of drawings and model photos illustrates the different spaces solidities at Brunswick Center, also shows different density of people and purpose of space and different amount of lights that goes to space defines public, private and semipublic space. I mainly focused on discovering solid and void at the beginning and start to mark up the space where it has bilingual expression as semi space. Even in a category of semi space, one more tends to be a public space while the other is more likely belong to private spaces. Solid and Void is not only a physical existence of object, but also a various positive and negative values that shows definite difference in specific area like natural light in the space. This discovery of in depth approach about solid and void was necessary in order to expand this topic into urban analysis and final building design. Diagram of solid, void, semi solid, semi void of Brunswick center

Photo of brunswick center for solid and void

Urban diagram of density and popularity in residential-commercial

Urban diagram of density and popularity in park and garden

Combined diagram of Almeria about solid, void and semi space

Urban analysis of Solid and Void at Almeria-Spain Extended from my previous exercise of solid and void in Brunswick Center in London, I brought the idea to the city Almeria, city of Spain. I started to use same strategy, solid and void to find out what is semi space in Almeria, and how does that space works in urban scale. I first categorized 3 different types of building and divide them into solid void and semi solid. And I searched 5 different level of density of people and hierarchy of semi space.

After that, I overlayered 3 different semi solids in Almeria, to find out what parts of this city have the densest semi solids. From that analysis I narrow my analysis zone from urban scale down to architectural scale and could find a problem of dysconnectivity of semi space in between densest semi-space area and waterfront. Urban diagram of density and popularity in utility and industrial

Elevation from the downtown Almeria

Elevation from the old passanger port

Elevation from the waterfront

Building design based on urban analysis From my previous analysis of the Almeria waterfront, I decided to develop parking lot area of Almeria port to connect city to waterfront by designing cultural center of a semi space. I first created one monumental bridge which breakes the boundary of semi spaces and the waterfront , and programmed different categories of spaces like, ports, galleries, exhibition centers, offices, and retail areas. By designing different entrance level, and different direction of stairs, this building could prevent people

from intruding space where they fo not belong. By using different amounts of natural light, Semi spaces, exhibition centers and galleries has been highlighted for taking top floors of all 4 different buildings with controllable louver system, and translucent glass roof to show how semi space having different quality of light compare to void and solid space, which are public parks, bridges, and offices, retail spaces. Exploaded diagram of different pathways based on solid, void and semi space

Section of the building for solid, void, and semi space in program of the building

Section of the building for solid, void, and semi space in passage of the building

Site Drawing of Montessori school new expansion

Montessori School Expansion Structural expression for Children Blacksburg, USA Bobby Vance bobruns@vt.edu 540-533-9078

Academic Individual work 3rd year 2016/08-2016-12

The Montessori school expansion project aims to teach students at the school through the building. My project captured students’ traffic line during the daytime and transformed this idea to two main axis which divides the entire building with a grid. And the grid creates the entire structures and roof which are related to counting, one of the most important education in Montessori education.While counting, ten is the largest countable number for kindergarden students, and by multiplying the ten, students learn how to count larger numbers. Based on this important education system, I designed 10 x 3 light columns which covers the most of the roof. Student can solve their calculation

without counting their fingers, the only thing that they have to do is look up the roof and count the light columns. Two rows of lighing columns are shorther than the others and they are not framing interior of building. From absence of lighing columns on a fair position, student could imagine what is a missing column. Also differences from uniformity highlights the main entrance for both student and their parents. Also space is divided into 3 differnt section based on the grid. By dividing dried and wet area with main hallway protects the materials that students use for dried class. In the other hand, wet are can do advanced water-related activities withouth concerning dry area. Exploded axonometric drawing of new expansion

Section drawing from old classroom

Section and elevation drawings from playground

Unlike other Classrooms at Blacksburg Montessori school, this building’s long window sides are elevated 2ft from the ground, and main classroom floors are on the ground level. By having different levels between storage/hallway and floor, this building can differentiate usage of spaces without coloring or writing narrative notification on the building. Since the window side floor is higher than other classroom buildings, students can experiece wider view which was not available from their old classes. The entire building is just singe large open space, and the reason why i choose space without any sub-divistion is from the Montessori school’s philosophy. There should be no un-seen space in the classroom so that instructor can watch entire classroom and students without searching around the entire space. Also by having long series of windows and skylight from the lighting cores, single space can be praised with abundant natural lights.

Plan drawing of new expansion

Wall section of construction detail