Torre Vitrum Housing Project in Bogota (PD/SD/DD) 2013-2014. office work: Richard Meier & Partners
Vitrum, the first project in Colombia designed by Richard Meier and Partners is located on a prominent site along one of the most important avenues in the north section of Bogota. With impressive distant views towards the city valley and in direct relationship with the secluded Seminario Mayor of Bogota, this 12 story residential project consisting of two towers, 36 apartments, amenities and parking is also bounded by the greenery of the nearby
mountains of the city and the publicly owned and landmarked Parque del Chico. A ravine and water gorge delimits the property to the north and serves as a buffer and separation to the neighboring property further delineating the unique angular shape of the site. Vitrum is contextually inspired by the beauty of its immediate surroundings and it aims to reflect, respect and to engage the nature that converges nearby.
Filling the allowable building area and derived from the footprint of the site, the two towers are distinguished by singular forms, each with unique expression and in dialogue with each other. Tower 1 is characterized as a prismatic-like structure distinctively articulated by folds, planes and carved surfaces, while Tower 2, an almost rectangular shape is demarcated by two solid punctuated planes. The massing of both towers responds to the internal function, the relationship with the immediate context and the orientation relative to views and privacy of each unit. The fractioning of the floor plate which corresponds with the local norm and sloped topography also informs and generates the volumetric one story shift that occurs in elevation towards the back of the site and allowing for a large open terrace to the front at the rooftop.
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The exterior envelope of Tower 1 is conceived to be pure, expressive and pragmatic to reinforce the sculptural prismatic and crisp form derived from the project’s function and site. It is meant to be elegant, with elements of transparency, opacity and solidity to establish a relationship and connection between the interior and the exterior. To the north and facing the seminary, the tower is expressed in large full height glass panels punctuated by balco-
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nies at the crease of the façade and strategically positioned operable windows. To the west, which is the most visible and representative façade, the all glass frontage is divided into two planes to break the scale of the building and to differentiate the private and public functions of the apartments facing Carrera Septima. One plane will be treated with a subtle frit that creates texture and opacity but permeable to natural daylight and allowing views from
the inside out. The other, all clear glass surface with operable windows floats in front of the prism to emphasize the cantilever over the main front yard. At the junction of the the north and west facades, a series of private balconies emerge to mark and to relieve the dramatic and assertive corner. On the opposite side to the south, the façade is treated with a combination of long balconies and a large glass plane similar to the glass façade on the north.
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Hyundai Hotel Hotel Project in Geyongpodae (PD/SD/DD/CA) 2011-2014. office work: Richard Meier & Partners
The new 150 room HH Resort Hotel and Spa at Gyeongpodae is a one-of-a-kind boutique hotel composed of elegant and inspirational guestrooms and amenities, a world class restaurant and a wellness spa that reflect the local culture, a Hanok Suite, a Banquet Hall, Amphitheater, Exhibition Hall, Beach House and various amenities.
Nestled into a dense hill with majestic old pine trees and facing the East Sea of Korea, the new HH Resort Hotel and Spa will be defined by two main buildings and several supporting facilities placed throughout the site. The hotel will be anchored to the summit plateau of this historically significant and one of the most prominent properties along the coastline.
The Banquet Hall has been designed as a separate building that floats on pilotis on the lower beach and promenade level, connected by a bridge to the Arrival Plaza of the Hotel. A series of sensitively incised spaces have been designed in procession from the approach on the main road along Gyeongpo Lake. The ascending road to the hotel meanders around the steep terrain through the pine forest with glimpses and framed views of the Gyeongpo Canal and the Hotel. The main building will have a 4 story base with subtle angles and shapes that follow the gentle curves of the topography juxtaposed with a 15 story trapezoidal tower. Almost all the guestrooms will have open views to the sea, with a few with views of Gyeongpo Lake and distant Taebaek Mountains to the west.
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The crisp geometry of the tower will contrast with the soft shapes of the hill and lower floors of the restaurant and spa. Floating balconies, articulated planes, expressive and textured facades and canopies are characteristic elements of the design that intensify the very different shapes and silhouettes of the building from various vantage points.
The forms that are expressed in shades of white and composed of pre-cast concrete panel, metal panel, glass curtain wall, and local stone will transform throughout the day in the interplay of light, shadow and the reflections of the deep seasonal colors of its surroundings.
The equally distinctive interiors have been designed to provide comfort and luxury controlled with a soft, light, and elegant palette of materials, carefully crafted to enhance the experience of open, airy, and engaging spaces.
The interior design concepts both contrast and complement the pure architectural forms of the hotel. The hotel comes alive with tactile and engaging sensation of spaces and materials. A soft and subtle, but rich palette of colors and textures are proposed inspired and evocative of traditional Korean feelingand sensibilities. The guest experience of the public spaces, lobby, restaurant and bar are generous, stimulating, engaging all senses and most importantly comfortable. The interior spaces are designed to be striking and memorable, with a unique character unlike any other hotel resort by the sea. Typical guestrooms are designed with generous washrooms, luxurious beds, and terraces. The color palette consists of light earth tones with smooth and textured surfaces of wood, plaster, and glass, highlighted by comfortable furniture, and bright art work.
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36 Central Park South Housing Project in New York (PD) 2014. office work: Richard Meier & Partners
The proposal for 36 Central Park South is inspired by the character of its unique setting and the broad importance of its position in New York City on Central Park South. The slender, elegant form is borne of a desire to create a singular, striking profile with
extraordinary views towards Central Park and downtown Manhattan. As one of the most prominent addresses in Manhattan, 36 Central Park South will be a landmark of the highest caliber for New York City.
The urban condition along 59th Street/ Central Park South poses a challenge as it breaks the continuity of the street edge currently maintained by the Park Lane Hotel. A void and open space will remain after the demolition of the hotel while the new tower will be set back on the southern portion of the site.
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Chongquing Rural Bank Chongquing Rural Commercial Bank SD 2010. summer office work: Skidmore Owings & Merrill
The 42-story tower and podium building house a bank headquarters, banking hall, and bank support spaces. The design reflects the banking institutions ideals of strength and solidity as well as their desire for an iconic, modern, high-rise building. The tower and podium are sited on the north side of the site in order to create a large, formal, civic plaza that fronts the building.
The subtle tapered tower is sheathed in an elegant overlapping stone and glass façade system. The overlapping horizontal stone spandrels that make up the facade gradually diminish in with at each floor level as the tower gets taller, revealing more glass at the top of the tower and enhancing views from the upper floors.
The overlapping nature of the facade system lightens the building visually, and provides self shading to reduce the solar heat gain on the building by over 60% when compared to a conventional “flat” façade system. This reduced heat gain substantially reduces energy consumption required to cool the building.
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Seoul City Hall Seoul City Hall Extension Design Competition 2007. office work: Mass Studies
To achieve Unity and Multiplicity simultaneously through architecture, the new Seoul City Hall should establish a single identity as a complex, while sensitively maintaining respect to the iconic old City Hall structure. The new proposal should be formed by the complex conditions that have existed within and beyond the site.
The new Seoul City Hall that is the spatial result of combining potentials will not only synthesize the past and the present, but define what is “public” in a completely new way. The new City Hall will create a continuity with Seoul’s six hundred year old history while co-existing harmoniously with the larger future of the 21st century and beyond.
The old City Hall building, which was built in the early 20th century, should not be preserved passively as a historic relic. Instead, it must function as the active genetic origin of the new building to create a unified identity through expansion. In order to create a unified identity, the old City Hall building provides not only the genetic origin of the new extension’s spatial layout, but also of its external façade.
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Terrace Tower Yongin Sungbok project 2007. office work: Mass Studies
The site area, which is situated at the Yong-In Sungbokdong 24th street, is the center of the Suji area. Huge apartments are located near the site, and huge new towns such as Bundang, Pankyo, and Jukjeon are adjecent to the site. The 43rd highway, on the southeastern direction, is connected to Suwon and Bundang.
Since a subway station will be constructed at the northwestern area of the site, it is a good place to be developed into a commercial center for the nearby new towns. Due to the presence of the Sungbok stream, which runs through the front of the site, the Sungbok complex can built with a great view of this existing feature of the nature.
The southeastern part of the building, where cars pass by at high speed, is planned as a huge and simple form, while the southwestern part, where the local residents approach, is articulated in horizontal masses that offer a familiar scaled facade. Near the Sungbok stream, on the northern area of the site, the mass is articulated in smaller masses to give more space to terraces and attract people walking along the Sungbok stream.
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Leaning Towers
In order to introduce a new symbolic building in the Allston area, leaning towers with different orientations are suggested. They are facing in different direction according to their views towards the river and the sunlight, which creates interesting spaces between the towers.
3rd semester core studio 2010. fall instructor: Jonathan Levi
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Various community spaces are situated below the plinth for the students and the people living in Allston area. This building will attract people to the Allston area to enjoy the new community space in the building.
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Two bedroom unit has a living room above for the two students to share, and one room studio is situated right next to it. These two types of units are combined together and repeated continuously to form the elements of the towers. The units are stacked one above the others leaning towards the river and make terraces on each floors.
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Urban Refuge
Thermal Bath has been considered as an important facility from ancient times, especially for Romans. It was known as a good treatment for various diseases, curing both physical and mental health. It was not merely washing one’s body but making people feel lighter and think more positively. It was also a social and cultural habit for Romans.
M.Arch 1 Thesis 2011. spring instructor: Jonathan Levi
Thermal Bath was also popular in Eastern countries. Especially in Japan, due to its humid weather and richness of the natural hot springs, thermal bath was widely used over the country. The thermal bath in Korea, on the other hand, was modified in modern society as a place not only to take a bath, but to make a social interaction by meeting friends, eating, etc.
This project is to develop a thermal bath in a urban area, which will provide people with a relaxing and enjoyable place. Thermal bath proposed within the city will provide a resting place for those who are tired of daily routine both physically and mentally. Escaping from the city life, Thermal Bath will cure people’s mind and body. The building will work as a vertical nature that revitalizes people as an urban refuge.
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The Inverted Ground 5th semester option studio 2009. fall instructor: Hashim Sarkis
Over the past four decades, the city of Istanbul has grown away from the congestion of its historic center towards its vast metropolitan fringes on both sides of the Bosphorus supported by an extensive network of roads, bridges, and public transportation.
This condition is bound to radically change in 2011, when the Marmaray project, a new underwater train-line linking the two sides of the Bosphorus, will be completed. This line will bring more than one million passengers a day into the historic city, and become a New Gate to both Europe and Asia.
In this site of complexity, a linear deck that will be connecting Northern and Southern part of the site will be introduced. This will function as a new open space in Istanbul. Although it is a kind of a mega form, it will not be recognized as one, since it will be mainly embedded under the ground and it will not be an obtrusive object.
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School of Architecture
Toulouse is a city of history. There are a lot of building elements which are historically significant. The School of Architecture in Toulouse is located in context of the city elements in Toulouse. There are a lot of historical buildings around the building and the extruded and intruded masses of the building interact with the view of the city elements.
6th semester option studio 2010. spring instructor: Yvonne Farrell, Shelley MacNamara
The extruded part creates a frame towards east and west views while the intruded part creates a balcony viewing north and south direction. This enables the student in the building to have more variation in viewing the city elements.
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Agricultural Urbanism 4th semester core studio 2009. spring instructor: John Hong
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The preceding proposals of the vertical farming are focused on enhancing the effeciency of the farming system. However, since the social relationship between the building and the people nearby is also an important issue in a society, this urban farming proposed in the Atlantic Yards suggests a social interaction between people.
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The diameter of the repeated circular voids are differentiated according to the distance between each nodes. Since the balconies have larger area on the ground level, the voids on the northern side is carved out inversely to create similar distance and floor plates. Circular shape of the farming enables the vegetation to be exposed to enough sunlights evenly. It was used as a farming area traditionally from early times. Greg Chung Whan Park, AIA LEED AP
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The Grand Opening Redesigning Detroit competition 2013. May Design Team : Greg Park, Terry Park, Jeong Jun Song, Hyuntek Yoon, Kyung Jae Yu
The mission to The Grand Opening is to create a vision for 24/7 timeless vibrant and walkable urban neighborhood in downtown Detroit with a catalytic impact on the retail activities of Woodward Avenue Corridor. Despite the declining population and activities of the downtown Detroit in past decades, recent influx of major cultural facilities, such as
theaters and sports stadiums as well as major office headquarters and commercial programs have established optimistic progress that the downtown Detroit could flourish again. Yet, the programs have not fully activated street life of downtown due to its limited hours of activity and nature of being inside, specifically the retails of Woodward Corridor.
Honorable Mention
Almost missed the train! MOMA is free today
I like this car!
I don’t like this color
I love this art work! What should I buy?
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I’m so tired of shopping
I’m late! Can I try this on? My favorite brand!
She’s so pretty
This pizza is great
This item is on sale
My first runway! coffee or tea?
The site is located in between the commercial / business district on the south and the major cultural, arts district to the north. By contextually connecting the different characteristics and activities of each districts, and by bringing the different context into the site at the same time, the site will be filled with energy and excitement.
How much is this? These shoes are pretty
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Do you have a package?
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Disclosed Ground International Competition for Rehabilitating Mapo Oil Depot into a Cultural Depot Park 2014. August Design Team : Greg Park, Sanghun Song, Gyeong Tak Park Honorable Mention
As a retroactive instrument to recover primal memories of nature, the existing oil depot will be turned into a new landscape feature in various programmatic levels to create a prospective locus to open up the public’s subconscious desire to interact with nature. Our proposal of a Disclosed Ground of each level reveals its own inherent topographi-
cal characteristics where people can engage with nature in numerous methods. Either by opening up the area previously occupied by the tank or by covering the site so that it recuperates the original condition before its industrial usage, each tank will thus stimulate people’s primitive emotions and reinstigate their relationship once held with nature.
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Disclosed Ground provides people with a primitivelike landscape and contains sensory stimulating activities enabling nature to prevail over the existing post-industrial vestige without entirely demolishing the current structure. The old Mapo Oil Depot re-constituted in the Disclosed Ground becomes a new cultural center replenishing people with socio-cultural activities communing with raw environments.
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Balanscape Folly 2015 2015. January Design Team : Greg Park, Deayung Kim Competition Entry
Both architecture and sculpture need to resist their own weight to stand on the ground. The nature of Architecture follows certain rules, limitations, and fulfills specific functions. Because the primary purpose is to provide shelter or a space for people, there is a vast array of complexities which must be dealt with.
Life span and permanence also requires certain safety and structural standards which should be followed. Conversely, sculptural works of art— though requiring structural stability to stand, do not necessarily adhere to such limitations. Temporal structures are often created in such cases, providing the flexibility to be relocated after exhibitions.
Our project investigates the structural and tectonic differences between architecture and sculpture, while discovering intersections between the two fields. BALANSCAPE is an architectural folly that provides people with shelter and a viewing spot which can also stand on its own, like a sculptural piece of art.
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Walking, Fast and Slow Re-Structuring Seunsangga CityWalk 2015. May Design Team : Greg Park, Sanghun Song, Gyoungtak Park, Jeongjun Song
Once symbolized by its grand scale, strong axis, and the popularity it enjoyed among noted public figures of the time, the Seunsangga Complex, an important urban/architectural heritage of Seoul, had become, with the passage of time, underutilized and unsightly.
Today, the Seunsangga Complex is preparing to reclaim its distinguished status and welcome the public with a newfound confidence. Hence, the project Walking_Fast and Slow seeks to aid the transformation of the Seunsangga Complex into one of the most attractive and unique automobilefree walkways in Seoul.
Competition Entry
The juxtaposition of the two very different walkways suggested in this project highlights the hidden wishes that any pedestrian may harbor for the city’s walkways. By counterpointing the disparate values of Slow and Fast, open and enclosed, programmed and undetermined, New Seun City Walk_Fast and Slow enables the city’s pedestrians to experience contrasting sensorial stimulations, satisfying their various desires about divergent life styles. Greg Chung Whan Park, AIA LEED AP
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