Janice Kim Portfolio 2015-2021

JANICE KIM

Currently, the majority of people in the U.S. suffering from homelessness are victims of abuse, addiction, or mental health issues, and have faced financial insecurity most of their lives. The existing model of homeless regulation is just

The site is located between the St. John's neighborhood and highway I-35 in Austin, TX. The project halves the site with a new road, creating the opportunity to sell the area east of I-35 for future office buildings, blocking street noise, and increasing

INTAKE - LEVEL 2 PLAN

1. INTAKE OPEN BELOW

2. VISION + DENTAL

3. CONFERENCE/ TEACHING

4. MEDICAL SERVICES

INTAKE - GROUND FLOOR PLAN

1. PATIENT INTAKE

2. ID RECOVERY

3. V.A. SERVICES

INTAKE - BASEMENT PLAN

1. STORAGE

2. CASE MANAGEMENT/ ADMIN

3. SECURITY CHECKPOINT/ADMIN

MARKET CULTURAL PROGRAMS

MAIN

PEDESTRIAN ONLY PATHS

1150 Dermatology is an interior renovation project on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The client came to us with a vision for a spa like dermatology office deviating from traditional hospitals and medical offices. The emphasis on comfort, hospitality, and soothing colors and forms, while maintaining a timeless aesthetic helped inform the design. Because of the unconventional nature of the office, the customization - down to finishes, built-in furniture, and even medical carts - provided unique design opportunites.

I assisted on this project for 22 weeks, and helped document from SD to CD. My duties on the project began with making site visits to obtain critical measurements for plans, elevations, and digital models. I was able to attend all client meetings to discuss the direction of the project, budget, and contractor bids. My duties included building a 3D model, designing custom exam room millwork, rendering options for client presentations, documenting all interior elevations and some interior details, specifying hardware and plumbing, and completing red lines.

RECEPTION RENDERING BY S. KASPER + J. KIM

EXAM ROOM SEATING MILLWORK RENDERING

EXAM ROOM CABINET MILLWORK RENDERING

LIBRARY ST. COLLECTIVE

RENOVATION + ART GALLERY DETROIT, MICHIGAN

TEAM: N. RICH | M. PETERSON | B. HOCHBERG

The Library Street Collective is a partnership between a husband and wife duo and a circulating group of promising, young artists and designers from or practicing in Detroit. LSC has commisioned exhibits, murals, pop-ups, and installations around the city since 2010 as part of the post recession, cultural revival. In an effort to increase visibility of the works of emerging and minority artists as well as house their extensive art collection, Library Street Collective purchased a formerly Black owned church in a suburban area of Detroit. The project will preserve the structure of the original church, re-adapt the existing furniture to the new space, and renovate the interior. The new program is a gallery, installation, concert, and event space as a new permanent outpost for the artist collective. For this ongoing project, I developed multiple site plans and diagrams for presentations and SD packages, and a 1/4” scale physical model for in house use as part of the design process. The section model below highlights the relationship of the existing building and proposed additions. The physical model continuously changed throughout the weeks as the team iterated, and was used for client meetings both in New York and Detroit. It will be on permanent display at the site.

NINA CHANEL ABNEY STUDIO

RENOVATION + ART GALLERY COLD SPRING, NEW YORK

TEAM: N. RICH | M. PETERSON |V. KELEKAR

Nina Chanel Abney is a New York based African American contemporary artist and painter who focuses on gender, race, and politics through a pop art lens as evidenced by her collage-like paintings. The artist approached Peterson Rich Office to renovate an abandoned autobody shop in Cold Spring, New York into a residence, studio, and gallery that she hoped could deviate from the bucolic nature of the town and become another focal point in the upstate New York arts scene. While the interior walls and roof were unable to be salvaged, the structural CMU walls remained and were reclad as to preserve the original exterior language with an updated finish. Key considerations when designing for this project were developing a flexible interior space and optimizing natural yet indirect lighting. The interior plan is organized by a central corridor that creates a liminal space between the public and private programs while the large openings allow the user to open the living area of the residence to gallery space when hosting exhibits. The sawtooth roof was an homage to the clerestory windows at the renowned Dia: Beacon. I helped develop plans and images for the inital client package and a 1/2” scale physical model for in house use. The model highlights the contrasting opacity of the original mass and the translucent and lantern like quality of the new studio.

BY N. RICH, V. KELEKAR + J. KIM

RPA NYCHA

SPECULATIVE URBAN ANALYSIS + DESIGN

NEW YORK, NEW YORK

TEAM: N. RICH | M. PETERSON | B. HOCHBERG

Like other comparably dense, metropolitan cities, New York City faces an affordable housing crisis as market prices and the cost of living increases, and wages stagnate. Particularly in the last decade, the city has faced increasing gentrification toward outer boroughs - areas of New York that were, and still are, predominantly occupied by minority or marginalized communities and those who cannot afford to live in Manhattan. In an effort to mitigate rising housing costs and socioeconomic inaccessibility, New York City and the federal government (through the FHA and HUD) subsidized large developments of affordable housing overseen by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA). However, due to budgetary constraints, the size, and number of developments spread out across five boroughs, the developments have fallen into disrepair, and the quality of living for the tenants increasingly unacceptable.

Peterson Rich Office has been continually studying and synthesizing future models of NYCHA developments working to reframe affordable housing solutions. From their first study “9x18”, examining the redevelopment of surface parking lots, to “Roof x Roof”, which explored the outcomes of selling and buying transferable air rights to increase capital and test models of vertical expansion of existing developments, the firm is currently working with the Regional Plan Association (RPA) and NYCHA to develop widespread, scalable building changes to be implemented across all properties in order to mitigate the deterioration of existing buildings, introduce a new system of programming, and redistribute underutilized space. I worked on statistical research, urban analysis of NYCHA developments, case study analyses, developed detailed 3D models of four NYCHA developments across the boroughs, created design diagrams, and organized presentation packages for the RPA.

VERTICAL EXTENSION

BUILDING INFILL

EXTEND + RECLAD

Old Fulton is a Type II residential renovation project in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood overlooking the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges. The renovation is currently slated for substantial completion by the end of August 2021. The client wanted a space that reflected his personality and aesthetic values, but was also rooted in clean details and timeless design that was suitable for a future family. While the design draws from many contemporary and modern influences, it maintains a distinct sense of art deco and industrialism that is inherent to New York. The materiality and color palette are aligned with Scandinavian modernism in the light and natural qualities, but

I have been involved with this project before the sale on the property was closed. I prepared all CAD drawings for the inital DOB submission, co-op board review, and all DD and CD sets. Additionally, I assisted the client in procuring an AOR and met with all General Contractors and subcontractors to review bid proposals. After all drawings passed DOB Plan Examination, I am coordinating with the GC, subcontractors, and vendors, for quote and scope comparisons for materials, fabrication, and installation as we undergo continual value engineering and change orders.

DISAPPEARING LOTS

URBAN ADAPTATION COMPETITION REMOTE

TEAM: A. AMASALIDIS

By 2030, the global temperature will rise by 1˚C, increasing the global sea level by 2.1 m; 3.2˚C and 7.1 m by 2100.

Our current methods of overcoming the disappearance of our coasts are to develop and reinforce seawalls or surrender buildings and landmass at great economic cost. We challenge the notion that our structures must be in opposition or at the mercy of these circumstances through a design where the structure is as easily disassembled as it is constructed, the component parts can be reinstalled into new frameworks, and each building is antecedently lifted as a buffer against time. The chosen site is located in Crissy Fields, a recreational area in northern San Francisco adjacent to the Golden Gate Bridge. The surrounding area is mostly residential zones where the median land value is over $1 million. We chose this site due to the housing and affordable housing crisis, the projected land and infrastructure loss due to increasing sea levels, and lack of an existing development plan in place for a long term sea barrier.

Our design is a series of mixed-use, housing towers made up of larger superfloor structures that multiple floors of housing and commercial pods can plug into. The structural skeleton is stacked, glulam superfloors attached to concrete piers and foundations. Each superfloor holds three floors of program, and each program pod is an easily plugged in modular shell ready for users upon installation. The glulam structure is easily dismantled into its component pieces, later moved to newer, more inland foundations, and unusable members are recycled into urban furniture for the remaining foundations turned sea platforms. The design reacts to the inevitable rise in sea levels through its modular structure, program masses, and skin that can disengage from unsafe conditions, and its foundation that undergoes programmatic reincarnation. The design allows building and living in areas previously viewed as unsuitable investments or lands projected to disappear within 50 years, and reframes these coastal lands as future assets.

BUILD FOUNDATION, CORES, CONCRETE COLUMNS

BUILD SUPERFLOORS, INSTALL PODS, ATTACH SKIN

SUPERFLOORS 1/3/5 - VERTICAL FARMING SUPERFLOORS 2/4 - HOUSING/MIXED USE

CONSTRUCTION

DETACH SKIN, PODS, AND SUPERFLOORS

FOUNDATION/SUPERFLOOR 1REMAINING OCCUPIABLE PLATFORM

CONSTRUCTION DECONSTRUCTION

A - SEA BATH

B - FARM

GARDEN PLOT

VERTICAL GARDEN

WALKABLE DECK

ALGAE FARM

FISH NET

EXTERIOR GROUND FLOOR RENDER

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EDUCATION

JANICE KIM

University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture

Bachelor of Architecture August 2020

École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville

Mebane Travel Scholarship Recipient

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

University of Texas at Austin

- Lead administrative assitant for organizing the UTSoA Career Fair

- Reduced administrative work for the Director of Career Services

- Helped coordinate professional development events

University of Texas at Austin

Career Services Associate Intermediate Studio Design Assistant

Austin, TX

- Teaching assistant for undergraduate Intermediate Design 1 and Intermediate Vertical Design studios

- Contributed constructive critique for 15+ students

- Led software demonstrations for Rhino and Adobe CS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Atelier JaJoo, LLC

Founder

- Project designer and manager of residential renovations in Brooklyn, NY

- Coordinated project schedules and all FF&E with general and sub-contractors on interior renovations

- Led weekly site meetings to provide clarification on change orders and updates to maintain project timeline

- Collaborated with Sweden based architect on the Urban Adaptation Competition and Anamanarau Arkitektur charity auction where all proceeds went to ending child hunger in the EU

- Consulted on the design for a home renovation and addition in Holm, Sweden

Peterson Rich Office

Architecture Intern

Brooklyn, NY

- Assisted in the preliminary design development phase of an ongoing research project to mitigate occupant issues at NYCHA developments in collaboration with the RPA

- Documented a hospitality focused med spa office from concept to CD and designed custom millwork

- Developed and prepared drawings, models, and presentations for projects spanning institutional, residential, hospitality, and, primarily, cultural work

HKS, Inc.

Hospitality Architecture Intern

Dallas, TX

- Collaborated with a team on the concept development, client acquisition, and proposal for a new resort and the adjacent historic renovation of an apartment building in Hot Springs, AK

- Developed a digital model of the master-plan and design options for the Hot Springs resort

- Completed red lines, QM assessments, and helped issue a CD package for a boutique hotel in Fort Worth

Stantec Architecture Intern

- Completed facilities assessments and documentation of all buildings for Dripping Springs ISD with a team

- Co-designed new cabins, a masterplan, and historic preservation for YMCA Camp Grady Spruce pro bono

- Helped prepare drawings and document packages for educational, institutional, and commercial projects

ACTIVITES