Kwon, Hyunchul | Selected Works | 2008-2015

HYUNCHUL KWON Selected Works 2008 - 2015

HYUNCHUL KWON CURRICULUM VITAE BArch (Chung-Ang Univ.), MArch(The Bartlett) Distinction Flat 12, Brigantine Court, 7 Spert Street London E14 8EB The United Kingdom kwonhyunchul.com sasum4@gmail.com +44 7477 470 953

EDUCATION Sept. 2014 - Sep. 2015

The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London, UK (The Bartlett) Master of Architecture, 2015 Distinction.

Mar. 2006 - Feb. 2014

Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea (CAU) Bachelor of Architecture, 2014

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE July 2014 - Sept. 2014

Bae Byung-Kil Architecture & Urban Design Associates, Seoul, South Korea Internship Participated in the Project of Mapo Cultural Depot Park prize design competition.

International Competition for Rehabilitating Mapo Oil Tank Depot into a Cultural Depot Park.

Assisted the project team with planning and design research.

July 2013 - Aug. 2013

ITM Corporation & mp_ART ARCHITECTS, Seoul, South Korea Internship Participated in the Project of Sejong Apartment houses prize design competition.

Commemoration for the 50th anniversary of Korea Land and Housing Corporation’s Provision of apartment houses design.

Assisted the joint task force team with planning and design research.

Aug. 2008 - July 2010

Corps of Engineers, Republic of Korea Army, Incheon, South Korea Construction Manager, Sergeant Served as a Sergeant in Construction Management.

Managed Construction Processes in 21 Military Facilities, Cost Between $10,000 to $2,000,000.

HOHORS & AWARDS Sept. 2015

The Bartlett B-Pro Prize 2015, MArch Architectural Design Gold Prize(First Prize), The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

Nov. 2013

The 31st SPACE PRIZE for International Students of Architectural Design Special Prize(Third Prize), Space Group, Jury : Seo, Do Ho

2011

CAU Honor Scholarship Academic Excellence Honor Scholarship, The Department of Architecture, Chung-Ang University

EXHIBITIONS & PUBLICATIONS Sept. 2015 - Oct. 2015

The Bartlett B-Pro Show 2015 Exhibited MArch Graduation Thesis Project ‘Spatial Curves’, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London, UK

May 2015 - Aug. 2015

3DXL Exhibition; a large-scale 3D printing experience Exhibited Design Project ‘WireMass’, Design Exchange, Toronto, Canada

May 2015

DESIGNBOOM Web Magazine Introduced Design Project ‘WireMass’, http://www.designboom.com

Dec. 2013

SPACE Magazine No. 553 Reviewed Design Project ‘Inside Out’ in ‘The 31st Space Prize for International Students of Architectural Design’

Nov. 2013

The 31st Space Prize for International Students Exhibition Exhibited Design Project ‘Inside Out’, Space Group Headquarter, Seoul, South Korea

Sept. 2013

The 49th CAU Architectural Review 2013 Featured BArch Graduation Thesis Project ‘Heterotopia Gangnam; Gangnam Heterotopia’

June 2013

The 49th CAU Architecture Graduation Exhibition Exhibited BArch Graduation Thesis Project ‘Heterotopia Gangnam; Gangnam Heterotopia’, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES Nov. 2012

Take Urban 72 Hours Project Participated in the designing activity on the traffic islands, Gwanghwamun, Seoul, South Korea

Jan. 2006

Freeform Architectural Design Workshop Participated in a Digital architectural design workshop, Seoul, South Korea

COMPUTER SKILLS

Processing, Arduino Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat Pro, Premiere Pro, After Effect, Apple Final Cut Pro Autodesk AutoCAD, 3DS MAX+Vray, Maya, Rhinoceros+Vray+Grasshopper, Google SketchUp+Vray, Pixologic ZBrush, Luxion ApS KeyShot Apple iWork, Microsoft Office Laser Cutting technique, 3D Printing technique, ABB Robot Controlling technique

LANGUAGES

Korean (Mother Tongue), English (Proficient)

REFERENCES

Alisa Andrasek Director, The Bartlett MArch AD & Wonderlab | Professor, European Graduate School | Director, BIOTHING & Bloom Games aa@biothing.org | +44 7545 338 136 Manuel Jiménez García Course Master, The Bartlett MArch AD RC4 & MArch Unit 19 | Curator, The Bartlett Plexus | Director, madMdesign manuel.j@madmdesign.com | +44 7885 206 613 Gilles Retsin Course Master, The Bartlett MArch AD RC4 & MArch Unit 19 | Lecturer, UEL | Director, Gilles Retsin Architecture gilles.retsin@gmail.com | +44 7583 888 209

KWON, HYUNCHUL BArch (Chung-Ang Univ.), MArch(The Bartlett) Distinction

Flat 12, Brigantine Court, 7 Spert Street London E14 8EB The United Kingdom

kwonhyunchul.com sasum4@gmail.com +44 7477 470 953

HYUNCHUL KWON Selected Works

01 SPATIAL CURVES Computational Substances : Printing Architecture, London, UK

02 WIRE MASS Computational Design Methodologies for Large-Scale 3D Printing, Toronto, Canada

03 INSIDE OUT Encounter Between Art and Architecture, Seoul, South Korea

04 HETEROTOPIA GANGNAM; GANGNAM HETEROTOPIA Gangnam Recombination, Gangnam, Seoul, South Korea

05 COMPLE-VERGENCE Itawon Neighborhood Facilities, Seoul, South Korea

06 OIL TANK CULTURAL DEPOT Rehabilitating Mapo Oil Depot into a Cultural Depot Park, Seoul, South Korea

07 MEMORY OF OLD SCENERY The New Type of Apartment Housing, Sejong, South Korea

08 ROK ARMY CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT Republic of Korea Army Corps of Engineers, Incheon, South Korea

01 SPATIAL CURVES Computational Substances : Printing Architecture, London, UK MArch Graduation Thesis Project, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL (Distinction, Gold Prize)

Today’s architecture can hardly be established by ideal or abstract theory. Many architects still practice old ways of established architecture and only stick to an ideal and abstract architectural view, of which substance does not exist and from which it is hard to propose a new paradigm, while excluding a new paradigm of architecture – digital architecture design. However, architecture cannot always have a persuasive power if it only has insubstantial ideals. On the other hand, although digital architecture design in the past was also limited in the design process and the realization of the architecture was achieved using the old practices, today the realization as well as the design is digitally possible and owed to the advancement of science and technology.

This research aims to focus on a new digital design architectural methodology (Computational algorithm based voxelized curvilinear space frame) and also a new fabrication realization methodology (3D spatial printed plastic curvilinear space frame). Basically this research is significant in that it suggests a new aesthetic and structural paradigm for architecture and also for providing the actual foundation for the possibility of its commercialization.

Collaboratation with CurVoxels (Amreen Kaleel, Xiaolin Li) of The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.

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COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN METHODOLOGY Masonry based architecture that uses bricks and architecture that is an assembly of pre-fabricated concrete blocks that can serve as the basis theory of 3D voxel. But because it is determined that these types of architecture do not fully utilize the actual potential of 3D voxels to optimize this potential possibility.

In the case of traditional masonry based architecture, a method to fabricate the entire structure using voxel components of the same type, the same elements and the same Data was used. In conclusion, based on the combination method and direction of the voxel, the type of the building was determined, and results in a simple result that incudes only the same colors and materials.

Using pixels in 2D as an example, even though all pixels have the same basic form, because each pixel includes unique data(color), the pixels are not read one by one, but they are read as an overall combination to draw an image. 3D voxels work in the same way in that each voxel contains unique 3D data - Bezier curves, and when the method to combine this data is provided, the overall voxel space is read as one structure, and it was determined that this can be applied to real applications.

The continuous curves used in the design method not only contribute to the resulting aesthetic value, but because the fabrication method is also completely identical, it is thought that the essential significance of the research, which is to continuously 3D print plastic mid-air along the continuous curves, is made possible.

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CURVOXELIZATION Continuity : In order that the form of the completed space frame is not shown as individual units of voxels, or in other words so that the new research of the voxel and previous research on masonry based architecture can be connected, repetitive composition methods must be avoided.

Combinatorics : Basically, each voxel is composed by finding its combinatory method with other voxels.

Even though all voxels include the same type of Bezier curve, based on how much each voxel has rotated in relation to its center axis, the type of voxel type is determined. Based on the characteristics of the surfaces of the different voxels that meet with different surfaces, there is a need to compose these different combinations using an algorithm.

Printability : To materialize the data that was designed using computational algorithms, all curvilinear tool paths need to be able to be 3D printed. For the sake of 3D printing efficiency and to save time, the tool path must be continuos without interruption.

Density : To achieve structural stability, computational structural analysis was applied to the design process. The weak stress value points were reinforced with additional voxels, and for the excessive structural support points, by using voxels 8 times larger (Octree) than the size of previous voxels, structural stability could be assigned. The infinitely reduced voxel ultimately becomes a point, and using the approach that the combination of points ultimately become lines and surfaces, and volume, through the integration of design syntax and one algorithm, it was possible to arrive at the result of complexity through curved voxels.

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Combinatorics Computational Algorithm

REINTERPRETATION OF CANTILEVER CHAIR The Panton chair is the world’s first molded plastic chair. This chair, which was designed in 1906 by Danish designer Verner Panton, continuously had new versions of the chair made based on the round design, which designers applied their own design flair to. In the design applied in this research, by choosing the Panton chair, while at the same time there was the goal of making a new version of the Panton chair, there was also the focus on the possibility of development when applying the design method of this research on a previously existing object.

Through the first simulation, 12 types of design issues were examined, and Continuity, Combinatorics, Printability and Density(Octree voxelization & Diameter Differences) were actually applied to the printing process. By actually fabricating objects possible to be recognized, the value of the design of the research and its possibility of fabrication were possible to be confirmed.

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3D Printing Cantilever Chairs

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Full Scale 3D Printed Cantilever Chairs

Full Scale 3D Printed Cantilever Chairs

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REINTERPRETATION OF SPIRAL STAIRCASE The uses and benefits of spiral staircases go back centuries. Although the date of origin is unknown, in the earliest of historical notations, they were widely used to reach the top of towers and give advantage to the King’s army against enemies. Spiral staircases started out made of stone, like the ones in the medieval castles and those found in lighthouses, but modern materials and technology have paved the way for the most beautiful versions in wood, metal, or a combination of both. Through the centuries the spiral staircase has become all about the customization to fit exactly the style, form, and function desired.

As same as Cantilever Chairs research strategy, by choosing the Folio Staircase, while at the same time there was the goal of making a reinterpretation of the Spiral Staircase, there was also the focus on the possibility of development when applying the design method of this research on a previously existing object.

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Full Scale 3D Printed Spiral Staircase B-Pro Show 2015, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

CANTILEVER PAVILION The design and the fabrication method of this research were applied to previously everyday objects – chairs, desks etc. - and was possible to be implemented quickly. Also in the architectural area it can be applied to components of a building such as columns and staircases, and can even be extended to be applied to the fabrication of the overall structure and space. This research conducted actual fabrication testing against columns and chairs, and through a computer simulation the possibility of total fabrication of a architectural structure was examined. When this idea of form finding that we developed is taken to an architectural scale we found that the most suitable structure for this method would be a cantilever structure or a large span structure because the resulting outcome is lightweight because the material we have used is plastic and also because of the pattern logic.

02 WIRE MASS Computational Design Methodologies for Large-Scale 3D Printing, Toronto, Canada Design Research Project, 3DXL Exhibition

For the project WireMass, a custom tool was developed to create various designs, turning an industrial robot by ABB Robotics into a large-scale 3D printer. All computing is targeted at specifying a path for the robotic arm to follow, which means that the robot is directly programmed with instructions for where to deposit the material in space. The extruded polymer follows a continuous path and hardens in the air.

Collaboratation with Manuel JimĂŠnez GarcĂ­a, Gilles Retsin and Vicente Soler with team CurVoxels (Amreen Kaleel, Xiaolin Li) of The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.

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03 INSIDE OUT Encounter Between Art and Architecture, Seoul, South Korea Design Competetion Project, ‘The 31st Space Prize for International Students of Architectural Design’ (Special Prize)

The architecture in which the part of scholarship did not divide much was the mixture of the various study and knowledges in the past. While the part of the scholarship was subdivided and diversified according to the flow of the time, architecture was formalized and narrow-minded. The architecture of the present age shows the appearance which is not any more fresh and is composed of the nearly similar way.

To overcome separated part of the scholarship we have to understand other parts. And according to that, we have to think how to applicate with architecture.

Other parts, especially in arts, we have to try to applicate fantastic ideas and expressing techniques directly to architecture. After that, an architect should make method through ideal and analytical thinking.

Collaboratation with Joo-Yeon Song of Chung-Ang University.

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INSIDE OUT AS AN ARCHITECTURE The facade of the building is nothing but subject of display becomes the exhibition area of the inside building through Inside out. And it is protruded into an external and it communicates with a city and the internal space nothingness the boundary. With this process, it solves the powerful boundary of Apgujeong-dong peculiarity. The protruded inside and city becomes one, and the facade becomes the place for exhibition for the city.

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Consequently, it was embodied through -Inside out- of the inside to show the cross section of the building which was likely to be possible. Transformed fantastic ideas of art through architectural and logical analysis make new possibility of architecture. Arhcitecture cannot exist independently and I interpret the way of the different part from the various collaborations refreshingly and the architecture should make the new probability.

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1. Gallery | 2. Meeting room | 3. Flea market | 4. Artwork storage | 5. Gallery A | 6. Gallery B | 7. Atlier | 8. Janitor’s office | 9. Gallery C | 10. Tea house | 11. Lounge | 12. Gallery D | 13. Roof gallery

ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN ART AND ARCHITECTURE Fantastic concept materializing through architectural and logical analysis, we can make new possibility of Architecture. Architect cannot exist independently, various cooperation and retake the new method of other areas, we should get a new possibility of Architecture.

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04 HETEROTOPIA GANGNAM; GANGNAM HETEROTOPIA Gangnam Recombination, Gangnam, Seoul, South Korea BArch Graduation Thesis Project, Chung-Ang University

Despite the preference for diversity in this modern age, people are still constrained to uniformity based on the social orientation and the need for efficiency. As a result, people have a dual-sided attitude where they externally respect the diversity of others, yet internally they hope that the others would be similar.

In this respect, cities and architecture are the visible products of such modern attitude. Efficiency is emphasized in road networks, public transport networks, rivers, ports and stairs, elevators, passages of buildings and therefore uniformity is demanded. Infrastructure, which is the basic physical and organizational structure that facilitates our living environment and economic activities, currently only seems to place emphasis on efficiency.

Modern cities and architecture seems to define it as “Efficiency = Infrastructure�, simplifying our lives by deciding that these are just means to a different destination. This architectural environment which is still clouded by goal-oriented mind-set should now be opened to accept diversity.

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GANGNAM RECOMBINATION - DATASCAPE Class and rank embedded in the vertical spacial structure should be eliminated and a new minimal space that appreciates individualism should be facilitated. Also, a flexible spacial composition is encouraged in order to satisfy the demands of the diverse crowd. In this way, the Gangnam station region will incorporate diversity and transform into a new heterotopia where order can be found amidst chaos.

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05 COMPLE-VERGENCE Itawon Neighborhood Facilities, Seoul, South Korea BArch 6th Design Project, Chung-Ang University

Itaewon is commonly perceived as a foreign country within Korea because there are lots of foreigners in the region. While diversity can be visually observed due to the many foreigners of different races and sexual minorities, Itaewon also distinguishes itself from other regions because of its history, wealth level, and busy hours that make it complex for the region to defined.

The most distinguished factor about Itaewon is the unique experience that can be obtained - people of various nationalities and personality lower their guards and bond together. From these experiential aspects, the region inevitably becomes special.

Its central location in Seoul, as well as the constant development being made in region will increase the locational and spacial value of Itaewon.

This project aims to capture Itaewon’s image as a whole and find a way to apply the unique experiences of Itaewon to all hours of the day and not just specific hours.

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UNIQUE EXPERIENCES Itaewon is differentiated from other regions because of the unique experience it offers. Usually people structure their days by meeting the people they intended to meet. However, in Itaewon, although during the daytime this applies the same, at night time, people gather in all types of groups. It becomes common to meet a diverse range of new people including people from other countries. Although this in itself may not be enough to call it a unique experience, under the surface it can be special. People commonly shy away from creating a common space with some one they do not know, and their willingness to accept others goes down. But this is different in Itaewon at night. People actively accept others and create common spaces with strangers to stay friendly through the night. These two concepts which usually contrast one another - ‘territoriality and exclusivity’ - are combined to create a unique situation. This is the special experience that differentiates Itaewon, and what defines the region.

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Clothing store Forign products store Finger foods(cafeteria) Cafe Gallery Cultural activities Atlier & Artwork shop Restaurant Restuarant Pub Restaurant & Pub Bar Club

COMPLEX + CONVERGENCE The unique experience of Itaewon that is limited only to its nightlife should be pulled forward to the daytime as well through appropriate program selection in order to allow 24 hour access to Itaewon’s unique experience. That is the objective of this project. Programs will be set up and combined to raise the value of the market and the existing experiences. By analyzing the circulation outside of the site, this information can be used to select the programs within site by time, space and level.

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06 OIL TANK CULTURAL DEPOT Rehabilitating Mapo Oil Depot into a Cultural Depot Park, Seoul, South Korea Professional Experience, Internship, Prize Design Competetion

The Mapo Oil Depot is valuable industrial legacy of Seoul but has been forgotten for quite some time since its own purpose was terminated. In an era of economic growth in Korea, a fresh approach is needed regarding this industrial legacy, which, ironically can survive in having been forgotten. Deviating from conventional attitude, demolishing the old city and constructing the new, it is time to try to keep the memory and history of this old structure and to revive its uniqueness. As an attempt to get back not only the old structure but also the territory having been closed for decades to the people of Seoul, this project will be a meaningful beginning. We expect proposals that recover the existing facilities and territory, not only grant a series of programs onto the old structure. In this sense, we hope that the International Competition for Culture Depot Park by Rehabilitating Mapo Oil Depot can show the direction to where architecture in Seoul should go.

We establish the objective of this scheme as the successful conversion of the existing oil depot into a cultural depot reserving cultural value and significance of contemporary times

Collaboratation with Bae Byung-Kil Architecture & Urban Design Associates.

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07 MEMORY OF OLD SCENERY The New Type of Apartment Housing, Sejong, South Korea Professional Experience, Internship, Prize Design Competetion

Korea has excellent natural scenery and topography that mountains can be seen anywhere in the country, which is globally rare. Looking around anywhere, there are beautiful natural landscapes along with the blue sky, which reveals superior mountain scenery and geographical features.

Before the modernization, the life of our ancestors was always together with the nature. Roads and villages were formed according to the mountain scenery and geographical features, and the life in harmony with the nature was pursued. However, the modernization after the 1960s has changed the way of life of Korean people. After the modernization, our cities that adopted science and technology, and the Western civilization thoughtlessly without context could not be harmonized with the nature anymore, and the new way of life that ignored the traditional emotions and life context of Korean people was enforced.

The large scale new town development such as Bundang and Ilsan of the 1990s succeeded and accelerated these problems. Cities were created by cutting mountains and making flat lands, which ignored the existing order of the nature.

This project is an apartment complex planning for some blocks within the Sejong Multifunctional Administrative City, which is a new town plan carried out recently, and the formation of the new city structure has already been completed.

As awareness of the quality of life has been established as an important factor by many people of the present time, it is time that a proposition for the possibility of the new way of life is needed. We aim to take back the life of Korean people through the memory of the past and the return to the nature by reflecting the very memory of the past, which the development swept away, in the new way of life.

Collaboratation with ITM Corporation & mp_ART ARCHITECTS

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LANDSCAPE ELEVATION In this proposition, in order to find the principle of the landscape planning of the housing complex from the old natural landscapes and roads, and reproduce them urbanely, dense towers are arranged along the ridge of the old mountain scenery and the main pedestrian road is placed along the traces of the old road.

This principle can be expanded to the neighboring housing complexes, and ultimately aims to reproduce the lost old landscapes in the scenery of the new town, and create the urban scenery that connects the future with the past.

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Career Certificate

Selected Works

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08 ROK ARMY CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT Republic of Korea Army Corps of Engineers, Incheon, South Korea Professional Experience, Sergeant, Construction Management

Construction Manager, Sergeant.

Served as a Sergeant in Construction Management.

Managed Construction Processes in 21 Military Facilities, Cost Between $10,000 to $2,000,000.

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