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Joon Ma jhma@princeton.edu 609.480.6467

education

Princeton University, School of Architecture, NJ Masters of Architecture I (AP) Davidson College, Davidson, NC Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology

professional

honors/awards

skills

2008 - 2012

Research Assistant to Forrest Meggers and Lucia Allais, Princeton, NJ Worked directly with Lucia and Forrest for their joint research on concrete.

05.19 - 09.19

OMA/AMO, Intern, Rotterdam, NL Worked directly with the partners and director of AMO on various phases of projects.

Projects: Samsung Premium Mobile Store - project leader, winning entry

Prada Fashion Show 18 S/S Milan - set design and design strategy

Data Center - desginer

07.17 - 06.18

N H D M, Intern, New York, NY Worked directly with the partners on various phases of three projects.

Projects: Co living Housing (Seoul) - 3D Modeling, Corresponding with Clients

Korean Crafts Museum (New York) - Programming, Research Package

Excise City (Seoul) - Research, Drawings

05.16 - 09.16

STPMJ, Intern, Seoul & New York Worked directly with the partners on competitions and built projects.

Projects: Shear House (Korea) - Structural Model, Site Survey

Invisible Barn (Sagehen,CA) - Material Sourcing, Kickstarter Campaign

Mirror (NY) - Fabrication, Material Sourcing

11.12 - 08.15

PT BAMBOO PURE, Designer, Bali, Indonesia Projects: Bamboo Tent in Bali - Lead Designer, Site Supervisor, built

Bamboo Construction Technical Manual - Writer, Researcher, Illustrator

01.14 - 06.14

Storefront for Art and Architecture, Intern, New York, NY Conducted curatorial research. Installed and operated the exhibition.

Produced two films for the “Past, Futures, Present Futures” exhibition.

08.12 - 01.13

Der Januskopf, Vienna, 2nd place, Europan 15 Of Possible Scenarios, architecture collective

2019

Dubai World Expo Korea Pavilion, finalist, KOTRA Superspatial + Joon Ma

2018

Reside Mumbai Housing Competition, Honorable Mention, Archoutloud Joon Ma, Mattia Inselvini, Gustav Nielsen, Kristoffer Lund

2017

UIA Suncheon Art Platform Competition, Runner Ups, UIA Suncheon Art Valley (K_GSAPP)

2016

George L. Abernethy Independent Research Grant, Davidson College, Davidson, NC Critical Study of Tadao Ando’s Buildings in Japan

2012

Dean Rusk International Studies Grant, Davidson College, Davidson, NC Critical Study of Tadao Ando’s Buildings in Japan Team KwaProw, afterschool basketball program in Ghana others

2018 - current

2011, 2012

Fantastic Forest, Volunteer, Jeju, Korea Helped develop eco-tourism at a rural farm village.

06.11 - 08.11

Mike Maloy: the Man, the Place, the Time, Producer, Davidson, NC Produced an ethnographic film on Davidson College’s first Black scholar athlete that helped raise $1M in scholarships.

09.09 - 05.11

Rhinoceros 3d (&Vray), Grasshopper, AutoCad, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere Pro,

AMAZON

IKEA

INNERE STADT

3km

Rennweg

8.5km

LOGISTIC HUB

POST PARCEL

TNT

FedEx DHL

PRODUCTION HUB

VERTICAL SYSTEM

PEDESTRIAN PATH

Der Januskopf is a design proposal for a system that integrates

ROOFTOP GARDEN

housing, productive spaces and public areas with the ambition

PLAYGROUND

URBAN FARM

to resolve the missing puzzle piece of Neu Marx neighbourhood,

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linking and framing different scales from urban to interior. Like

PRODUCTIVE POCKET

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the two-faced Roman god, Januskopf expresses itself through 2 FFIC

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opposite façades, responding to site’s idiosyncrasies: a translucent

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and semi-open winter garden stands out against the busy and polluted Rennweg, while a system of wide and gently-sloped 2019

terraces stretches out to the adjacent residential tissue in the south.

Januskopf expresses most of its relation to the city at the ground 2024

level, convergence of commercial, transportation, and logistical nodes in local, urban, and regional scale.

2028

a two-faced strategy for Rennweg

OVERLAP

2032

Der Januskopf

Professional/Personal, Vienna, 2019 (2nd place) Team: OPS! (of possible scenarios) Site: Rennweg. Vienna

PROGRAM DISTRIBUTION

33 m

A-A’

A’ A

31.000 m2

11.000

28.000 m2

9.500

54.000 m2

14.000 PRODUCTIVE

RESIDENTIAL

PUBLIC SPACE

*see relation for detailed area breakdown

The south-west side of the project is terraced and faces Wildganshof, one of Vienna’s successful socialist housing projects. The terrace engages Wildganshof through its connectivity and display of various public activities by makers, residents, and visitors.

The building mass takes advantage of natural light and air ventilation.

Terraces Convergence of highway, roads, bus route, and trams causes heavy traffic and noise pollution from the vehicles. The NE side of the project is shielded with a translucent and semi open buffer space that not only functions as a buffer to the surrounding traffic but also house HVAC and other building infrastructures.

Two Sided Strategy The design of the building allows transversal connections between Rennweg, LeberstraĂ&#x;e and the train station. On the NW edge of the site where train, bus, and tram stations are located, a pedestrian passage opens to a public square facing the station.

Urban Plaza

Program

LOGISTIC HUB MATERIAL HUB MULTIPURPOSE HALL

+ 17.00 m

OVERLAP 02 OVERLAP 01

In the overlaps of the horizontal (terraces) and vertical (tower) systems the public flows are enhanced.

+ 13.80 m 4th - 5th floors - SUBSIDISED HOUSING

UNDERGROUND FLOOR required: Housing > 60 parking places Productive > 110 parking places project: 150 parking places +10 charging points for electrical vehicles

+ 10.60 m 3rd floor - EXPERIMENTAL HOUSING

STRUCTURAL SYSTEM The simplicity of the structural grid, a square of 9x9m, allows an high flexibility in terms of space layout.

+ 7.40 m 2nd floor - PRODUCTIVE SPACES

LAST MILE The material hub consolidates material from various wholesalers and material producers around the region. It redistributes larger chunks into smaller shipments using delivery vehicles as, bikes, scooters, and drones.

PRODUCTIVE RESIDENTIAL PUBLIC

The production spaces accomodate small offices and public facilities visually connected to the logistic space on the ground level; co-production and co-working spaces, speed factories and creative spaces on the second floor are strictly related to the terraces that function both as a platform for the users and as urban alley for the surrounding residents.

The housing typology on the third floor allows different uses: cluster Wohnung/student accomodations/accomodations for artists and makers.

The multi-use atelier typology on the fourth and fifth floor combines living and working spaces.

+ 4.20 m 1 floor - PRODUCTIVE SPACES st

2020 DUBAI WORLD EXPO KOREA PAVILION Design proposal for the Dubai World Expo using E-waste as a platform to display 5G technology.

geosphere - 4.5 billion years

biosphere - 3.5 billion years

noosphere - 10.000 years

any of the almost spherical concentric regions of matter that make up the earth and its atmosphere, as the lithosphere and hydrosphere.

is the worldwide sum of all ecosystems. It can also be termed the zone of life on Earth, a closed system and largely self-regulating.

A topography made of e-waste

Public space embedded in the electronic landscape

highway junction

internet cables

a sphere of evolutionary development dominated by consciousness, the mind, and interpersonal relationships.

Ultimate manifestation of physical mobility. The road infrastructure enabled us to be efficiently mobile within the physical domain of the highway system.

The physical manifestation of our endlessly evolving digital sphere. The new web of infrastructure installed transcend beyond the dimension of time and space.

Exhibition spaces

A pattern of individual and personalized paths

The pavilion as a tool to make relations

Professional/Personal, Seoul, 2018 (finalist) Team: Superspatial + Joon Ma Site: Dubai World Expo The proposal is a physical manifestation of the digital and the mechanical infrastructures that enable our Noosphere, the sphere of human consciousness and mental activity, to connect and to communicate. Our ability to innovate how we mobilize our goods and communicate our ideas allowed us to reach beyond our regional and national boundaries. It’s no news that we can now mobilize our thoughts and ideas instantly all over the world.

However, unlike the rails, roads, and airports that allow us to be physically mobile through trains, cars, and airplanes, the infrastructure and the hardware that enable our digital mobility are buried, hidden, and often invisible. How do we spatialize the invisible infrastructure that allows us to be connected more than we ever could have imagined?

Over few decades, South Korea has embraced the possibility of the digital infrastructure and has now become the forefront of the new 5g technology. The constant upgrade and update of the digital technology that we are all accustomed to comes with incredible amount of mechanical, physical and digital engineering to make it into a reality.

flexible amphitheater space used as exhibitiion, concert, and event space

multifunctional auditorium

exploded axonometric multifunctional auditorium

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1. Kotra office / 2. Conference room / 3. Vip lounge / 4.

Restaurant / 5. Staff office / 6. Praying area / 7. Conference room

1. Pop-up stores / 2. Kitchen / 3. Restaurant / 4.

Resting space / 5. Nursery / 6. Reception PLAN 1.2 m LEVEL

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5.15

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PLAN 5.2 mt LEVEL

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Exterior Front View 40

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1. Entrance / 2. Exit / 3. Digital monitors and VR experience / 4. Amphitheatre / 5. Exhibition trailer

1. Main exhibition room / 2. Special exhibition

PLAN 8 m LEVEL

PLAN 9.2 mt LEVEL

32.85

32.85

5.60

5.60

Section AA’

TECHNICAL REPORT & PRE-CONCEPT Critical investigation of greenhouse technology.

Domain of investigation: structure, climatization, water, recycling, and infrastructure

Academic, Spring 2019 Instructor: Alejandro Zaera Polo While architects like to claim our influence beyond the design of the built environment, so much of the world around us is precisely and often cryptically engineered. These industries have had significant impact in our built environment yet architects aren’t able to participate or contribute to how the productive spaces are being built around urban and peri-urban environment. For the first half of the studio, I investigated how the Dutch greenhouse system works as an object, building and infrastructure. I visited the Netherlands for a week to interview and visit engineers, growers, and climate consultants.

spreads from the technical report

PRINCETON JUNCTION FOODPORT Use of undesirable residual land between the parking lot and the railway as the strategic site for a foodport that combines the function of productive greenhouse, logistical food hub, and commercial space.

Academic, Spring 2019 Instructor: Alejandro Zaera Polo Site: Princeton Junction station Located in Princeton Junction railway station, the proposed Foodport prototype takes advantage of the Transit Oriented Development plan that the Regional Planning Commission is putting forth and uses the undesirable residual space between the existing parking lot and the rail to construct a high-tech greenhouse system.

While the conventional food hub acts as a logistical channel, the Princeton Junction Foodport combines production and distribution of food with the rail station. Taking advantage of the high volume of commuters in Princeton Junction station, pending developments around the railway station, and increased interest in local food and agricultural technology, the Princeton Junction Foodport not only provides a food production and distributional node, but through its hybrid programming becomes a public and cultural node for the neighborhood. Tomatoes produced by the farms can either be picked up by 6000 daily commuters, residents of West Windsor, and distributed out through the adjacent food hub.

staff & visitor access staff & visitor access greenhousegreenhouse farm systemfarm system

office Owner Name County Block Number Lot Number Acreage Value

AMTRAK Mercer 6 14 12.7 N/A

Owner Name County Block Number Lot Number Acreage Value

W. WINDSOR Mercer 6 17.01 7.41 $1,787,300

determine the grid

prep & logistical access logistical access control

Owner Name W. WINDSOR Mercer County 6 Block Number Lot Number 16.02 Acreage 7.41 $1,337,600 Value

Owner Name County Block Number Lot Number Acreage Value

office

prep & control produce

produce post process access food hub food hub train statio post process distribution distribution access

specializedspecialized facilities facilities

AMTRAK Mercer 6 67 2.96 N/A

maintenance access maintenance access determine the site strategy

staff accessstaff access

office

Owner Name County Block Number Lot Number Acreage Value

AMTRAK Mercer 6 66 5.7 N/A

Owner Name County Block Number Lot Number Acreage Value

office

logistical access logistical access

NJDPOT Mercer 6 33 8.72 $1,168,500

diagonal grid and is adjacency

prep & logistical access logistical access control

prep & control

farm

public acces post process farmpost process train station public access food hub food hub train station

& public access distribution distribution & public access specializedspecialized facilities facilities

Owner Name County Block Number Lot Number Acreage Value

NJDPOT Mercer 6 88 4.89 $1,048,400

Owner Name W. WINDSOR Mercer County 6 Block Number Lot Number 69 Acreage 5.99 Value $873,700

site analysis: ownership and property value evaluation

maintenance access maintenance access

parti

external formation

programmatic strategy

3.9

1.6

7.8

1.7 2.6

3.9

1.1

7.8

7.9

the newly formed bounding box is constructed with an internal grid and jagged edge.

0.8

the grid and the edge

2.6

1.8

4.1 5.3

4.6

3.6

1.8

7.0 3.9

5.8

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7.8

productive spaces as farms, food hub, and office are placed in the inner side. this allows both logistical and public flow to link through various axis without interfering one another

2.3

0.8

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parti formation

3.2

5.0

4.6

5.0

7.8 7.0

7.8

the residual space from the productive spaces now become the public space both as circulation and public programing. It engages the adjacent greenery space and the parking lots on weekend to formulate greater programing

7.8

residual space

0.9

3.2

3.2

3.2

5.0

3.2

internal formation

3.2

7.8

7.8

7.8

this big box has many faces with varying programs. varying degrees of opacity and operativity are considered in designing the facades.

7.8

the faces

3.2

facade types

3.2

view from train

view from the bridge

view from the logisitical center

perforated metal sheet is cladded on the train side which reveals the farm and post processing area in its translucency. The linear face of this edge which is mostly exposed to trains and cars visually engage the viewers through its varying degree of opacity, depth, and light.

the upperside of the box that features public space in its jagged form is exposed as drivers cross the bridge. the degree of opacity changes as public programs are placed in between the edge of the programmatic boxes to the upper edge.

the north eastern trip of the triangle is used as a distribution hub. as shown in the image, different faces of the building has varying degrees of operativity and opacity depending on its programmatic occupation and use.

view of the farm

view of the farm

view from logistical belt

inside, there is a 8000sqm tomato farm. the edge of the farms are cladded with translucent polycarbonate both for opacity and insulation. the visitors can experience the farm in the education center.

the structure and the equipments installed in the facility are fully optimized for maximum yield. frames are coated in white for light transmittance and the pitch of the roofs are divided to account for the snow load in the winter.

the linear logistical belt parallel to the railway connects the farm, food hub, and train station without interfering with the public space

Rather than using different architectural type for various embedded programs in the foodport, the entire foodport is under a single greenhouse structure.

Unlike other big boxes, the Princeton Junction Foodport’s peripheral edges are designed to accommodate public programing. According to the Regional Planning Association, NJT rail stations should devise a Transit Oriented Development plan to use the parking lot spaces that will most likely be unused once the autonomous vehicles are put in place. The jagged edge of the upper end of the site is cut with diagonal lines from one column point to the other.

Between the edge of the building site to the embedded boxed programs, the residual spaces between the two are used for public programming and promenade for the walking commuters to the Princeton Junction station.

With two large parking lots wrapping around the east corner of the building, permanent retail and food market place is located there. During the weekend when the parking lots are mostly vacant, the two edges adjacent to the parking lots open to enable greater community events as farmers market and fairs.

exploded perspective: integrated but disparate productive, commercial, and public space

On the lower left corner of the site which has the largest footprint is where the greenhouse is placed with its irrigation room, boiler room, chp, and water tanks. There is a long logistical band that does not interfere with the public space along the lower edge of the food port. This logistical channel is used to transport the tomatoes from the farm and food aggregated from the food hub to different channels. Food hub is placed on the upper edge of the eastern volume to utilize the existing road infrastructure for logistical access.

CLIMATE & ROOMS

Academic, Fall 2018 Instructor: C. Diaz Moreno, E. Grinda Site: 48th street and 11th avenue, NY, NY

Design of alternative housing for picklers in New York using both passive and active climatization for communal and individual activities.

tenement housing act was imposed. Beyond the terrible living

The tenement house on site was built on 1901, the year the condition that the dumbbell housing typology created, the units that were once built for nuclear households are now transformed to a single studio. With new cooling and heating technologies these units are now cooled through ac window units and radiators.

Such plug-in technologies privileges certain rooms that house those devices. The vertical towers erected from modern architects addressed the issue of density and left openings for greenspace, but two extremes of verticality (housing) and horizontality (open spaces) created hard boundaries between units, buildings, and the city.

In comparison to the tenement houses or the typical housing units in NY. The mediator provides a globalized temperature control to allow for the range of temperature.

In a time where drastic shift in a single household is changing from a nuclear family to individuals, architecture has conveniently accommodated for individuality and convenience. The mediator provides an alternative where the individual living and the ritual of communal activities and living is enabled through range of temperature provided by the integrated thermal system. Where both the winter garden and the cellar is contained within this new tall fridge in Hell’s Kitchen.

elements of convective thermal circulation

site: existing tenement building

privileged and ineffecient climatization

climate control study: surface and volumes

thermal properties: convectiona and radiation

climatic zones

thermal properties: convectiona and radiation

SAMSUNG PREMIUM STORE

Professional, OMA/AMO, Rotterdam, 2018 Position: Project Leader, Competition phase II (winning entry) Team : Samir Bantal, Bozar Benzeev, Kai Wang, Helena Daher, Partner: Chris Van Dujin, Samir Bantal Site: Seoul, Korea

Design of a store rooted in series of experience

Rather than reinforcing Samsung’s corporate identity by adding another variation to its already established store image we propose an open source system where uncompromising qualities come alive and stage “life in action” as its central attraction.

THE NEW SAMSUNG PREMIUM MOBILE STORE WILL BE OCCUPIED AND ACTIVATED

BY A SERIES OF MODULAR VOLUMES: SPATIAL DEVICES ABLE TO SUPPORT MULTIPLE SCALES AND TYPES OF ACTIVITIES, CONSTANTLY RE ARRANGED IN DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS AND CONFIGURATIONS, DEPENDING ON LOCAL REQUESTS, NEEDS, MARKETS, CULTURES, USERS...

product display professional sound room service desk on-site repairing

100 sqm 33 sqm 33 sqm 33 sqm

community area staff room toilets storage

60 sqm 16.5 sqm 35 sqm 33 sqm

mechanical

60 sqm

parking lot

350 sqm

typical samsung store

samsung enhanced experience

volumes and experiences

axonometric view

Gf Interactive Ceiling

2F Arena Cycling Experience

2F Arena Plaza - Cinema Undercroft

3F Galeria Sound Experience

TOWERS & PLINTHS Refining the tower and plinth typology to calibrate density, light, and boundaries in housing

Academic, New York, 2016 Partner: Ryan Leifield Instructor: Eric Bunge Site: 425 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY To provide housing for increasing urban population architects have designed various typologies to adresss, react, and resolve the state of housing.

Hosing in New York has been built for a nuclear family. Despite the changing demographic and family structure in New York, the existing housing typology does not reflect those changes.

The vertical towers erected from modern architects addressed the issue of density and left openings for greenspace, but two extremes of verticality (housing) and horizontality (open spaces) created hard boundaries between units, buildings, and the city.

From this project, we propose to refine the historical housing typologies of tower and garden and tower and plinth to design housing that corresponds to the changing social structure in New York and provides space for social interactions in both vertical and horizontal spaces.

concept diagram: calibration of boundaries between the units, building, and the city

DISENFRANCHISED NON NUCLEAR DEMOGRAPHIC

HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL

VERTICAL ISOLATION

isolated

CHANGING HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE

1960 US

1990 US

2016 US

HOW TO HOUSE THE NEW DEMOGRAPHIC

HORIZONTAL RESTRICTION

INWARD/OUTWARD

PLINTH TYPOLOGY

GROUND INTERSECTION

2016 NY

LEVER HOUSE

SHENZHEN STOCK EXCHANGE

preoccupations: preconcept diagrams

section: horizontal and vertical living converging and diverging through the intersection

ground level view

upper level view

plinth level plan

tower level plan

GRADUATION TENT IN BALI A temporary pavilion employing techniques that leave construction materials completely reusable.

Professional, Bali, Indonesia, 2014 Position: Lead Designer Role: Design, Model Making, Construction Management Executed by: Ibuku Structure Consultant: Putra Wiarsa Dimension: 44m x 15m x 13m Client: Green School, Bali This bamboo tent was commissioned by Green School, Bali to be used for the graduation ceremony and the Conservation Conference Weekend that featured Dr. Jane Goodall as the honorary speaker.

The client asked for a tent-like structure that could accommodate 500 people, would not destroy the site (soccer field) or the structural bamboo poles so that it could be re-used, and could be built in 10 days to be used for 10 days.

frame installation

klangsa (woven palm leaf) installation

frame installation

interior view

MODULARIZED DATA CENTER Creating a modularized autonomous cube units that can systematically proliferate over time.

Professional, OMA/AMO, Rotterdam, 2018 Position: Intern Architect Team: Laurence Bolhaar, Miguel Taborda, Antonio Lamarca, Anton Anikeev, Alexander Joksimovic, Partners: Rem Koolhaas, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli Consultants: Arup Conventional datacenters, contained in massive volumes, are built and function as a whole. Due to its footprint and interdependency of the technical systems, these datacenters are physically and technologically constrained once built. This strategy dictates a long term phasing strategy on financial and resource investement.

The Incremental challenges such limitations, and excessive consumption of natural resources, by using autonomous cube units (24 w * 24 l * 24 h) that can systematically proliferate over time. Each autonomous unit contains all the technical services required to operate the white space. Such configuration allows it to be adaptable to both physical contexts and technological advancements, and answer to a desire for capacity on demand, and through copy and paste has the ability to function in the context of a city, as well as in the countryside; as a global strategy.

The proposed Incremental scheme is optimized to the given site and brief. Six cubes are placed with 12 meter interval from one another, creating a central spine that binds all six cubes. The implemented grid-system allows each cube and the spine to be built incrementally. The central spine, located on the same level as the whitespace, contains service and operational space for humans to operate the datacenter. Interlacing of human space and machine space -the cubes- within the grid creates an optimal and congenial workspace.

POWER & STORAGE

WHITE SPACE

114000 12000 12000

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24000

12000

12000

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24000

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6000 12000

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6000

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CROSS CONNECT

CROSS CONNECT

12000

CRAH UNITS

CRAH UNITS FIBER OUTPUT

AIR LOCK

CRAH UNITS

CRAH UNITS FIBER OUTPUT

RECREATION

12000

WORKSHOP

LOUNGE / MEETING

SHOWERS

12000

CRAH UNITS

CRAH UNITS CROSS CONNECT

CROSS CONNECT

6000

6000

CROSS CONNECT

CRAH UNITS

CRAH UNITS

CRAH UNITS

6000 6000

CRAH UNITS

6000

12000

FIBER OUTPUT

CHANGING ROOMS

TOILETS

TOILETS

CANTEEN

AIR LOCK

FIBER OUTPUT

AHU

AIR LOCK

UTILITIES

SECURITY POST

MEETING ROOM

GENERAL OFFICES

FIBER OUTPUT

TOILETS

AIR LOCK

MANTRAP

TOILETS

6000 6000

AIR LOCK

CRAH UNITS

COOLING

RECEPTION LOUNGE

6000

COOLING + SUPLEMENT SPACE

WAITING AREA & ENTRANCE HALL

24000 6000

72000

12000

FIBER OUTPUT

6000

AIR LOCK

6000

CRAH UNITS

24000

6000

12000

CROSS CONNECT

12000

12000

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FACADE white space plan

Composition Single 1.2MW DC Unit

current

KANAL Transformation of the Citroen factory in Brussels into a museum.

intervention

proposal

Professional, OMA/AMO, Rotterdam, 2018 Position: Intern Architect Team: Paul Cournet, Mathieu Mecuriali, Francesca Lantieri, Joanna Rozbroj, Ted Kim, Mattia Inselvini, Andrea Govi, Marco Gambare Partners: Rem Koolhaas, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli We propose a sequence of three crucial eliminations: First, we divide the factory in two parts to create a direct open-air connection between the water and the park. This open-air corridor serves as public playground, exhibition area and social park. It defines, to the east, a museum square around a central, double

model proposal

height exhibition atrium.

The second elimination creates a direct connection from the showroom to the museum, at right angles to the first. It is a public concourse that also accomodates the library.

The first cut is dedicated to urban pleasure, the second to urban knowledge.

The third, final elimination empties the showroom, apart from the ‘attic,’ to create a Brussels ‘Salon’ – an urban event space equipped for any kind of performance or assembly.

central garden

multipurpose exhibition hall

Joon Hyuk Ma jhma@princeton.edu 609.480.6467