Jiwon Park - Free of Dimension

Master of Tall Buildings and Vertical Urbanism Bachelor of Architecture

FREE of DIMENSION

As a problem solver providing solutions through spatial design, my focus has naturally evolved in response to societal requirements and the different cultural context. Beginning with smaller projects, my curiosity pushed me towards expanding my expertise in a broad range of scales.

My portfolio comprises projects, encompassing a spectrum from low to high-rise, landscapes to urban designs , and object to furniture design.

07 Table HYO

Table Created with Timber and Steel

08 Polyhedragon Mask Futuristic Mask Designed to Overcome Physical Limitation

Towards 2070: Vertical Adaptation

01 Urban Design

High Rise Building

Towards 2070: Vertical Adaptation

A City as an Extension of Ecology

System Design of a Future City with High Rise Buildings

Facade as a Mega Structure

Double-Sided Facade for Vegetation and Timber Finishing

How can dense city adopt nature?

Site | Del Norte, California

Type | Urban Design, Highrise Building

Instructor | Antony Wood, Yohan Kim

Academic | M.TBVU Cloud Studio

Teamwork | Divya Sureban, Will Basco

According to the UN, over 68% of the global population is expected to reside in cities by 2050. Given this scenario, the project raises a fundamental question:

Are present cities adequately prepared for a population influx amidst climate change?

As a solution, the project proposes an ‘urban system’ of vertical expansion while striving for a humane and people-centric vertical urban approach and horizontal solutions such as engineered land to mitigate the sea levels.

Towards 2070: Vertical Adaptation

Proposed Circulation in 2070 Future City

In present urban landscape, circulation is defined by boundaries, fostering rigid distinctions between interior-exterior and vertical-horizontal elements. High-rise structures, though, constitute a sequence of interconnected horizontal spaces. I advocate for an inventive cityscape promoting fluid movement with harmonious verticalhorizontal circulation.

Volumetric Blobs To attain adaptable movement patterns, volumetric design is incorporated in high-rise structures. Through sculpting volume, a continuous surface emerges, imbuing the space with dynamism and fluid spatial qualities.

Concentric Zone model Ernest Burgess

Concentric Zone model Ernest Burgess

3 dimensional blobs with program curved out negative space

rectilinear flooor plates

Form Study with PLA, 3D Print

Density A

Density B

Density C Timber Filament

Density B with floor plates

Density B with floorplates

Density C Timber Filament

Density A

Density B

Density C Timber Filament

Towards 2070: Vertical Adaptation

System Design of Vertical Landscape in High Rise Building

By manipulating the contours of volumetric blobs, diverse designs emerge as various architectural elements are interwoven.

The objective was to establish a systematic approach rather than crafting a singular spatial configuration.

Towards 2070: Vertical Adaptation

Aluminum Rails and Dripline

Waterproof Backing Board

Support System

Growing Medium

GFRC Pot

Capillary Break

Double Sided Facade

Exterior wall provides green wall for vegetation and interior wall offers warmth with timber finishing

CLT Panel manufactured in the shape of waffle structure

Frame Plants and Soil

CLT Panel manufactured in the shape of waffle structure for water drainage

Masss Plywood Panel (MPP)

Steel - Glulam Hybrid Waffle Structure

Using double-layered hybrid waffle structure as a main structure of the building and to hold volumetric blobs and sky bridge in sky.

Simplified Double-Sided Wall

Towards 2070: Vertical Adaptation

Horizontality in Vertical City

The city aims to offer horizontal and volumetric spatial quality by adding skybridge in an urban scale

Highway 101 Rehabilitation

Using existing highway as a main boluevard and freight transportation of timber from adjacent forest.

Amphi Theatre

Trampoline

Shopping Public Plaza Exhibition

Local Horizontal Community

Additional skybridges connecting residential buildings in different levels, in the shape of triangle for structural stability

Main Horizontal Community

Skybridge in level 250 and 550m offering horizontal living. Skybridge offers essential urban infrastructures.

Vertical Community

Lifting up the highway 101 to skybridge level to create a main boulevard system. Transportation tower and office towers are aligned along the highway101.

15min Grid System

A grid system designed for vertical urbanism encouraging 15minute city.

Preserving Ground Level

Constructing the least on the ground level to preserve existing nature

Existing Nature

Lake Earl, a lake surrounded by preserved area to keep its biological diversity

Urban Diagram- Adopting Nature in Del Norte

Towards 2070: Vertical Adaptation

Spatial Centri-city

interior centers inside buildings

spatial center in between buildings

outer centers in city landscape

Future Vertical City

Poly Centri-city

multiple social gravity points

Tokyo

Mono Centri-city

clear center point

Chicago

Sea Level Rise Intervention

Lake Earl

Lake Earl Wildlife Area

Tolowa Dunes State Park

Urban Strip Physical Model

The city is tallest at the main skybridge level and shortest as it gets closer to the lake for better accessibility to nature.

Physical Model - Plywood and PLA 3D Printing

Labyrinth: Vertical Institute A

Residential for Scholars

02 High Rise Building

Labyrinth: Vertical Institute

Vertical Institute in a Dense City

Institute, Research Lab

Roof Garden

Public Library, Theatre

How can tall buildings interact with surrounding nature?

Site | 990 N Lakeshore Drive, Chicago

Type | Hybrid Building

Instructor | Christopher Groesbeck

Academic | 2022 Summer Studio

Teammate | Yuqi Li, Fang Ding

The essence of the institution is derived from its provision of chances for scholars across various disciplines to exchange, deliberate upon, and enhance their knowledge.

To transcend the primary constraint of tall buildings – their straightforward circulation and enclosed interiors – the project employs the notion of a labyrinth within the context of a high-rise structure.

In addition to drawing inspiration from the concept of a labyrinth, the project strives to fully integrate the surrounding landscape, harnessing its maximum potential and enabling it to actively engage with circulation and the overall experiential aspect.

Public Courtyard

Exo Skeleton

Roman Forum

Horizontal Campus

Vertical Campus

Corner Site of Golden Coast, Chicago

Situated at the corner site of golden coast, the site provides a panoramic view of different landscapes.

The design focuses on adopting views into user experience and explore full opportunity of high rise building.

Residential Units

Observation Deck Cafe Resource Center Lecture Room

Open Laboratory

Auditorium

Public Exhibition

Public Library

Variety of events and program leading people from ground level to top

Circulation Diagram

1”=20’ physical model

03

Urban Design

Low Rise Architecture

Pilsen Forest : Sustinable Community

Food Commons as a Cultural Hub

Water Collecting Column with Dense Structure

Interwoven Gulam Roof Structure

Program Column with Public Library

Column Follwing Shape of Force Diagram

Food Commons as a Cultural Hub

What is a mediating space?

Site | 914 W St, Pilsen, Chicago

Type | Urban Design, Cultural Instructor | Andrew Tinucci, Kindon Mills

Academic | 2021 4th Year

Teammate | Hoon Jung, Lika Corson

Pilsen, located in Chicago, has been established by various immigrant communities spanning different eras. Within this culturally heterogeneous locality, the project seeks to offer a unifying remedy using a universally cherished medium: food.

The project begins with a manual Geographic Information System (GIS) process, searching for the ideal sites for food commons, and ends with an urban design that fosters a sustainable community capable of a wholesome flow of food production and distribution.

Program Column with Farmer’s Market

ETFE Cover for Ceiling Window

Program Column with Restaurant

Circulation Column with Elevator and Stairs

Site A Food Commons

Manual QGIS

Finding the ideal location for food desert in Chicago, analyzing viable neighborhood, accessibility to high and low quality food.

Accessibility

Intersection of Three Different Cultures

The project is situated at a crossroads of various cultures: Asian, Hispanic, and the youthful culture from UIC. Its objective is to create a venue where these diverse cultural influences can come together harmoniously, facilitated by a shared food commons.

Youth, Young Asian Hispanic

Park to Shop Supermarket Asian Groceries Store

Recreational Center

PhD Pubs

Little Joe’s Bar

Italian Icecream Shop

Kurimu Dessert Shop National Museum of Mexican Art

Declaration of Immigrant Mural

Simone’s Mexican Pub

El Abbrazo Mural

Coyotes Restaurant Mexican Street

Dae Bak Korean BBQ

ML Kitchen Qiao Lin Hotpot Joy Yee Chinese Cuisine

Hispanic Asian General

Good Quality Food

to Good Quality Food in 15 minutes

rapid reconstruction after the re accelerated the growth of lumber industries

Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Italy and Eastern Europe

Pilsen’s growin indutrial labor force was underpaid and overworked and it led to uprising.

Fewer

Many

Chinese moving to Armour Square due to discrimination brought by World’s Columbus Exposition

Lower- income Chicagoans moved to the south to the area of surrounding Hull House

Black, Latino, Italian-American grassroots movement neighborhood

drafting plans for new, mix-used a ordable project on site

Improve Connectivity between Chinese throughout the city

China Town Square

Additional residential Ping Tom Memorial Park Townhouses

Neighborhood Coalition lost

People in displacement to make a way for UIC, mostly Mexican, moved to a ordable Pilsen

Abandoned factories crime, urban decay, poverty

Chicago’s industrial boom began to sputter. Many blue collar moved to suburbs. Whole population decreased.

Independent hub of community and political organizing (Centro de la Causa, Casa Aztlán)

Chicago 21 Plan , replacing the old industrial areas to the south and east of Pilsen with middle-class communities denied

Mexicans in Pilsen claiming their territory in local organizations, shops and other institutions.

Actively shown through vibrant public murals

Commitee cosulting proposed zoning changes established within neghborhood

More white and middle-class people

Became attractive to developers property value / rents increased the number of low-income, Latino families declined.

History of Pilsen

Pilsen,

Mural PEACE by Mario Castilo

Fighiting for PLAN21

Renovated and Newly Built Houses in Pilsen

Initial Masterplan The Pilsen Forest comprises three different sites. Community Campus - Greend Corridor - Riverside Campus.

Final Masterplan Three separate sites synergize with one another, establishing a flow of public engagement, energy, and food cultivation.

Pilsen Forest : Sustainable Community site B Green Corridor

Link connecting site A and site C Community Engagement at Pilsen

site A

site

a significant role

Site B Green Corridor The green corridor serves as a vital link connecting

to

C, playing

in fostering community engagement within the Pilsen residential area. The corridor facilitates the transportation of food and energy produced at site C, while community members from the community campus utilize the corridor to travel to the Riverside campus.

WATER SUPPLY / HYDROGENIC HEAT

GEO THERMAL

SYMBIOTIC POND GROWING

RENOVATED WAREHOUSE

AQUAPONICS

site C Riverside Campus for Energy and Food Production

03. Urban Design, Low Rise

GREEN WASTE

FOOD WASTE

Green House Market Workshop for Visitors Viewing Hall Bio Energy Core

RIVER WATER FILTERATION

FISH POND

THREE SISTERS CROP

20 60 140 ft

Site C Riverside Campus Site C utilizes traditional Indigenous agricultural practices that involve river water irrigation, alongside repurposing existing warehouse infrastructure for community engagement initiatives.

Renovated Warehouse with Reusable Energy

SITE A Community Campus

SITE B Green Corridor

SITE C Riverside Campus

Pilsen Forest : Sustainable Community site A Food Commons Cultural Hub of Pilsen Community

Canopy

Column Mesh

Solid Column

Arch and Force Diagram

Structural Profile Line

Site A Food Commons

The design intends to integrate structural and spatial concepts with simple architectural elements.

Different Porosity of Column The design intends to integrate structural and spatial concepts in a simple form. The porosity of the structure responds to the housed program in column.

Pilsen Forest : Sustainable Community site A Food Commons Cultural Hub of Pilsen Community

Structural Optimization

The food commons in consists of two architectural elements - roof and column. Force diagram is directly translated into form for structural efficiency.

Pilsen Forest : Sustainable Community site A

Water Collecting

CLT Weave

CLT Weaving Steel Ring

Steel Placement Ring

Steel Dowel Joints

Steel Dowel Joints

Steel Piles

Concrete Foundation

Steel Pipe

Concrete Foundation

Construction Method

Dowel joints and steel ring to weave the structure from bottom to top

Two

Edge Park Main Plaza

Columns Forming Arch Site A Food Commons Section

Two columns following force diagram shapes arch when it meets in the end

Second floor, Food Market

Pilsen Forest : Sustainable Community site A Food Commons Cultural Hub of Pilsen Community

Pilsen Forest : Sustainable Community site A Food Commons Cultural Hub of Pilsen Community

Column Base, ABS 3D Printing 1/8” Wooden Strips

Roof Base with MDF, CNC

Projection on Top of CNCed Base

Final Roof Roof - Column Connection

Final Physical Model

04 Landscape

Low Rise Architecture

Soft Boundary

Modern Forum in Urban Park

Meeting Zone Auditorium

Meditation Corner by Pond

Seating Staircase

Exchange Zone

Creative Zone

Lecture Rooms

Can circulation dictate form?

Site | Olympic Park, Seoul, South Korea

Type | Cultural, Modern Forum

Instructor | Abiola Sagbohan

Academic | 2021 Spring, 3rd Year Studio

The issue originates from a straightforward yet prevalent question among architects.

“ Why does it have to look like this? “

In response to the question, I came up with a design that could be justified in every angle.

Circulation and Site-Responsiveness

Within the project, I delve into the concept of how architectural design could manifest when it directly engages with the site, fully leveraging its inherent possibilities, and transforms circulation into its defining spatial form.

Kids Space

Outdoor Playground

Modern Park in Super Block The site is located at the edge of a super block - Olympic Park in Jamsil, Seoul. The man-made park is carefully planned out to offer cultural programs and nature to the public.

Physical Model 1:200

05 Renovation

Mid Rise Architecture

Chicago School Renovation

Adaptive Reuse Project for West Loop, Chicago

Roof Extension

Chicago Red Brick Facade Renovation

How can you keep the originality but younger?

Site | 224 N Des Plaines, Chicago Type | Adaptive Reuse, Education Instructor | Lap Chi Kwong Academic | 2021 Spring, 3rd Year Studio

As architects are responsible of more than 40% of carbon emission, we are ought to build more consciously, build less, or not build. The proect aims to rehabilitate a typical Chicago Style architecture into an art school tailored for younger generations.

The renovation project retains its original facade and timber structure while introducing transformative elements. These include an undulating glass exterior, an expanded rooftop for heightened ceilings, and the addition of a grand staircase on the ground level to facilitate public gatherings.

Adaptive Reuse Project for West Loop, Chicago

Glulam Structure

Analyzing visual and physical adjacency between seven different conservatories, space, and program.

Program - User Adjacency Diagram for Art School

Roof Extension for Art Studio

Glulam Structure

Classrooms

Studio Theatre

Open Studio Visual Art Academic Drama

Practice Room

Music

Classroom

Music / Drama

Main Theatre

Grand Staircase

Entrance

Attached Glass

Original Brick Facade

Perspective Section, Rendered with Vray

Grand Staircase A multi-purpose grandstaircase intersects ground level circulation and increases public engagement

Grand Staircase, West Entrance

Grand Staircase, Basement

Rooftop Extension and Facade Renovation

Undulating glass panels to evoke a youthful ambiance, enhancing the vibrant spirit of an art school and expanding the rooftop to create a spacious studio area.

Rooftop Expansion for Studio Space, Glulam

Facade Renovation with Attached Endulating Glass

FLOW: WAter Garden

06 Public Art

FLOW: Water Garden

Sculpture into Experiential Art

How can immobile sculpture be more interactive?

Site | SAN Museum, Paju, South Korea

Type | Public Art

Instructor | Abiola Sagbohan

Academic | 2021 Spring, 3rd Year Studio

Museum SAN is one of the most peaceful museum in South Korea designed by Ando Tadao. The entrance incorporates a gate to the museum, a sculpture created by Alexander Liberman, an artist who primarily uses steel pipes as main material.

While observing how visitors engage with the ‘gateway’, I noticed that many were content with superficial connections, mostly capturing Instagrammable photos.

Fueled by a rebellious inclination, I sought to create ripples in this tranquil water garden. I altered the sculpture’s nature to facilitate into an interactive public art not only offering visual interaction but also physical engagement.

Sculpture into Experiential Art

Sculpture ‘Archway’ by Alexander Liberman made with of Steel Pipe

Located at Water Garden

Added Step Stones to Transfer

Visual to Physical Interaction

Thin Pipes Attached on the Inner Surface

Transforming Sculpture to Interactive Public Art

By adding thin strips of water pipe to sculpture and stepping stones in water garden, the sculpture transforms into an interactive and dynamically engaging artwork.

Visual to physical interation using nature of water

MDF, Table Leg

07 Furniture Design

Table HYO

Designing Objects with Hybrid Materials

Designing Objects with Hybrid Objects

How can an object be organic and rigid at the same time?

Type | Furniture Design

Instructor | Cassidy Brick

Academic | 2022 Summer

CNC, Plywood Table Top

Steel, Table Leg

1/8” Plywood Table Top

1/4” Plywood Table Top Connection Steel Leg

MDF Table Leg

Design of Table HYO

Organically shaped table top is combined with rigid and heavy legs. The table top is designed to be enjoyed in different angles.

Polyhedragon Mask

08

Parametric

Object Design

Polyhedragon Mask Designed to Overcome Physical Limitation

Lights from Different Directions

Focal Point

Mask Designed to Overcome Physical Limitation

How can humans have 360° visual perspective?

Type | Object Design

Instructor | Fillipo Nasseti

Academic | Extra Curricular - PA Academy

Teamwork | Jusang Lee

Our affinity for nature is profound, often finding valuable lessons in its ways.

Drawing inspiration from the cellular structure of a dragonfly’s eye and the phenomenon of light refraction, the Polyhedragon mask offers an encompassing 360° visual outlook achieved through its parametric cells.

We hold the conviction that this innovation could serve as a valuable tool for individuals frequently exposed to dangerous circumstances, including firefighters, soldiers, police officers, foresters, miners, and even those who walk at night.

Funtion Diagram Drawing by Jusang Lee

Keyshot | Rhino | Illustrator Academic | 2020 Winter Body Architecture Instructor | Fillipo Nasseti Teamwork | Jusang Lee

light reflection through crystal units. people in fields like fire fighting.

Dragonfly Vision Cell Diagram Drawing by Jusang Lee

Mask’s Unit System Drawing by Jusang Lee Image Sensor

Polyhedragon Mask

Physical Limitation

Crystalline Cone

Optic Nerve Fibers Rhabdom

Keyshot | Rhino | Illustrator

Academic | 2020 Winter Body Architecture

overcome limited angles of visual sight and expand it using light reflection through crystal units. dragonfly’s 360 degrees visual eyes. We believe this will help people in fields like fire fighting.

Mask’s Unit System

Dragonfly Vision Cell Diagram

Drawing by Jusang Lee

Inspiration from Dragonfly’s Vision Cell

Drawing by Jusang Lee

Mask’s Unit System

Dragonfly Vision Cell Diagram

Parametric Cell

Drawing by Jusang Lee

Detail /

Detail / Video Rendering Keyshot

Detail / Video Rendering Keyshot

Funtion Diagram Drawing by Jusang Lee

Instructor | Fillipo Nasseti Teamwork | Jusang Lee Body Architecture

Dragonfly Vision Drawing

Drawing by Jusang Lee

Polyhedragon Mask

Light Cell

Polyhedragon Prism

Main cells of the mask that controls the light refraction into visual data.

Vision Cell Screen and HUD

The eyes of the mask where user can have 360 degrees perspective.

Transmission Cell

Accelerometer, LiDAR Sensor

The light is collected at the focal point and visual data is transmitted to the image sensor.

Analysis Cell

CPU Connected to Spinal Cord

The CPU connected to spinal cord analyse visual information and allows rapid spinal reaction in the case of emergency

Dragonfly Vision Cell Diagram Drawing by Jusang Lee

Mask’s Unit System Drawing by Jusang Lee

LiDAR Sensor

LiDAR Sensor

LiDAR Sensor

LiDAR Sensor

Analysis Part

Funtion Diagram

Drawing by Jusang Lee

Jiwon Park

Free of Dimension

Generalist

Specialist?

Integrator

Everything Needs to Be Designed

From Where to Where is Architecture?

Everywhere But Nowhere

What Stays and Goes?

Total Media

Physical Model!

Timeless Design

Pre and Post

Future Derived From Past

Anthropocene Era

Spacious Density

Sensible Verticality

Virtual “Reality”

Conscious Intention

International Localism

Local Internationality

Afterall Earth is One and Round

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