Jihae Park/MArch/GSAPP 21'/Columbia University

Jihae Park Master of Architecture

Columbia University in the City of New York, GSAPP 21'

Bachelor of Architecture

University Honors 17’, SungKyunKwan University, Seoul

Contents 1. Affordable Housing _ Growing Units Core 3, M.Arch 2nd year, GSAPP, Columbia Univ.

2. Stack Library _ Seen and Unseen Core 2, M.Arch 1st year, GSAPP, Columbia Univ.

3. Infra-Street _ Trash Recycling Proposal ADV 6, M.Arch 3rd year, GSAPP, Columbia Univ.

4. Adaptability is Empathy _ Zoo in Dual Future ADV 4, M.Arch 2nd year, GSAPP, Columbia Univ.

5. Academy of Canoe _ A Building as Canoe ADV 5, M.Arch 3rd year, GSAPP, Columbia Univ.

6. Broadway Stories _ Urban Application Core 1, M.Arch 1nd year, GSAPP, Columbia Univ.

7. Recombination of Precedent Study _ Recombination ADR 1, M.Arch 1st year, GSAPP, Columbia Univ.

8. Greenpoint Philharmonic _ Revit work Integrated Design, M.Arch 2nd year, GSAPP, Columbia Univ.

9. Daechi-dong Culture Complex _ Modular Facade System Professional Work, Lifethings, Seoul 10. [Re]Membrance _ Mutual Communication Graduation Project, B.Arch., SungKyunKwan Univ.

Isometric

Exploded Axonometric, Growing Micro Units

CORE3_Affordable Housing Crit by_Gabriela Etchegaray, 2019 Fall

Axonometric, Affordable Housing, Jihae Park and Eva Jiang, 2019

Growing Micro Units Since this project was started with the consideration of the density of privacy and public space going through the walls, we brought some questions about the level of privacy in redidential spaces.

How much can you share your place?

Can you share the kitchen? or even the bathroom?

Or, Do you NOT want to share any rooms?

We designed a device for making flexible spaces. To be detail, the device, 3 feet thickness of wall has a plumbing system, that the residents can utilize this 3 feet wall for their bathroom, kitchen or others by their needs. It suggests that this 3 feet wall cn be simply eleminated for the usage, and to be further, this also suggest another possibility to merge with the next door. For example, if you are not fine with sharing anything and need more spacious space, you can combine a couple of micro units for making bigger unit. This is the reason why we tried to make minimized size of micro-unit, but made public space as much as generous.

Ground Plan

Gradual density of public spaces

Second Plan

Units are able to be merged

Section

Courtyards are limited by the density of publicity

Elevation

Screening facades by rooms behind

THK 1/2" DOUBLE GYPSUM BOARD THK 1/2" GYPSUM BOARD THK 3" INSULATION THK 2" ALUMINIUM PANEL

FACADE RAILING SYSTEM THK 2" ALUMINIUM PANEL INSULATED DOUBLE GLASS CURTAIN BOX

Detail

Three-layered facade system controlling density of privacy

Merging Unit

For maximizing flexibility in modular house, we made minimal cells and spacious public area. The 3' wall embeded in each cells maximizes flexibility, with a plumbing system which can be applied for kitchen or bathroom.

Enlarged Elevation

Users can choose different density of screens by use

Vignette

Public density

Ground Plan Sequential Spaces

CORE2_Stack Library

Crit by_Emmett Zeifman, 2019 Spring

Seen and Unseen through the patterns

A Sneak Peak in Library In library, various intersections of views are existing, such as focal point, framed views, passing glance or searching. As the meaning of library is expanded today, this kind of views are also expanded and diversified. Which means, focusing view or limited view in reading centered library has become more complicated in today's community centered-library.

This library is about how the interplay between seen and unseen, people desire to be noticed by others. On SNS, people get a sneak peak of someone's feeds, and vice versa, they truly enjoy that they are exposed. Library is also for a space for these set of activities. When we go to the library, we feel like we have independent personal space that we can focus better on our own works, but actually is opened to the public. Because we consciously and subconsciously have a sneak peak on each other in library, this fact could be implicitly ignored. In this perspectives of a 'SNEAK PEAK', 22C's library would have more expanded views, including forward sneak peaking. So, I explored intersections of views in library and overlaid them in between spaces.

Stacks

Precedent Study

Study Model pattern work

Study Model

Gradient degrees of views by overlaying patterns

Sequential Elevation

Making curiousity to attract visitors

The blurry facade stimulates people's curiosity and attracts them to the building. The deeper you pass through the library, the clearer the overlaid walls open the view.

3rd Plan

The community boxes connect between the outside library and the capsule library

4th Plan

The free-standing patterned walls are act as shelves for outside library

Physical Model

Collage Drawing Infra-Street : Users

Collage Drawing

Infra-Street : Trash Pickers

ADV6_Infra-Street Crit by_Jing Liu, 2021 Spring

Recycling Prototype, Collage Drawing, Jihae Park, Chengliang Li, Tianyuan Deng, Yuanming Ma

As a human, we eat, consume, metabolize, and produce trash. Trash, one may say, is one material that binds us together in our human experience across our cultural and social differences.

Currently, Americans produce 5.91 tons of trash and only 25% is recycled. The rest are part of an environmentally tasking global waste infrastructure that results in most of them ending up as landfills in poor countries.

Our project takes on the fundamental question of “what do we do with our garbage?” and attempts to imagine a more locally and regionally based infrastructure that is socially caring, environmentally responsible, and economically nutritious to our communities, our cities, and our planet.

At the global scale, we try to eliminate the waste transported away to be disposed of as landfills in poor countries. At the local level, we propose a social space between the street and the sidewalk that makes collecting and separating garbage more effective.

If this metabolic process of consumption and waste operates more locally and is rooted in our daily life, the current global waste loop would be shrunk, thus, the amount of landfills greatly reduced, and the sense of care harbored at the individual and community level.

Street Scale

Proposed Units are set on the pocket parking lot

Can and Plastic Waste The hole is designed by the given diameter of can and plastic bottle, which encourages people to throw out proper trash. We expect it will educate the recycling process by sorting out, flattening, and putting them in the right place.

Can and Plastic Waste When the bottles are collected in the upper trunk, it will sort out to six-drawers to reduce weight of each chunks. Then the trash picker can easily pull out the drawer with wheels.

Section

Throwing hole was designed by human scale

Composite Waste Composite waste is firstly collected in a small machine which takes responsibility for processing.

This processed organics will become a great nutritous fertilizer for plants, which people can take it for individuals' garden.

Elevation

Drawing system for easy trash pick-up

Glass Waste Glass is collected on each standard crates put on the featured glass wall. The glass wall has a set of drawers as well, where people can freely put the glass bottles and pick them out by trash pickers.

Cardboard Waste Cardboard is supposed to be flatten by individual before throw it out. Therefore, we designed thin slits which only allow flattened cardboard. When they are collected in the stools or slitted drawers, it makes strength or provides wheels, which makes better convenience.

Gif Image Capture

The module installation educates people to recycle properly, and at the same time it gives social spaces.

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Leighfs Pond Muchattoes Lake Harrison Pond Little Falls Park Hudson River Downing Park Urban Farm Tyrone Crabb Memorial Park Newburgh Water Front

Energy Cycle in the Town Ecosystem in neighboring nature

ADV4_Adaptability is Empathy Crit by_Phu Hoang, 2020 Spring

Adabtability is Empathy 15% Model Perspective, Jihae Park, Lu Liu,2020 Spring

Zoo in Dual Future Obsolescence of the traditional zoo is both an economic and ethical issue. In order to lower cost, provide a comfortable environment for animal guests, and exhibit a realistic picture of the local habitat, zoos must change their focus from entertainment to education. Space issues are a large concern. Compared to other forms of entertainment, the zoo provides a small ratio of exhibition space to audience. By studying the typology of the zoo against museums, theatres, and jails, we found that the zoo prioritizes the audience rather than the inhabitant. Animals in the local environment also view human infrastructure as an artificial barrier, further demarcating local habitats. In addition, many zoos host exotic animals not applicable to the local environment, driving up maintenance costs. The future zoo should be based on the education of locals through the organization of open exhibits of local habitats, predator-prey relationships, and required living space of the animal.

Section

Hybrid zoo inserting in abandoned houses and empty lots

The project seeks to combine the animal and human programs through both plan and vertical striation. While the project seeks to unify the entire electrical corridor into a single, uninterrupted wildlife corridor, it also introduces human entry points. This project seeks to form a constructed meeting ground that benefits both types of visitors. In the future, the structure transforms to reclaim obsolete human infrastructure and absorbs it; fractured habitat returns to the animals’ ownership. The electrical corridor seeks to eliminate land “ownership” and aims to return to an unnatural return to nature, recognizing the historical permanence of human actions on the environment.

Hybrid Building Isometric Animal and Human

Hybrid Building Section Animal and Human

This project adopts abandoned houses and lots by introducing animals. we are proposing an urban zoo that focuses on education and conservation. In visiting the natural resources in close proximity to homes, people will learn to respect and live alongside animals. Our adaptation of the aband-oned lots features greenhouses and a ringed pathway, inviting people into the natural habitat. We suggest setting greenhouses to create a microclimate.

With a ringed tube, people can tour in between greenhouses.

Enlarged Plan

A journey into animal shelters through featured tube

Horizontal Drawing

A journey into animal shelters through featured tube

ADV5_Academy of Canoe

Crit by_ Dominic Leong, Christopher Leong, 2020 Fall

It gives them new possibilities including plants, and it became a major ingredients and materials for Hawaiian people.

Thanks to the Canoe, Hawaiian people could start their new journey to the big world.

It was no wonder that canoes settled on the island due to the abundance of Koa trees, the main raw materials for canoe production, and the geological condition of Hawaii.

When the early settlers came to Hawaii by canoes, the canoe became an indispensable part of Hawaiian life.

Canoe History in Hawaii Canoe for navigating and voyaging

Canoe is an indigenous culture in Hawaii which reflects Hawaiian spirit on how to look at the world in their native perspectives. The academy of recreating Koa Canoe seeks fully understanding of the traditional canoe making process and focusing on the recreation of Koa tree. The academy provides a learning center and specialized laboratories to explore the tradition.

Canoe History in Hawaii Gift from Canoe voyaging

The circulation within the academy follows Canoe making process and Koa tree breeding process.

Koa tree is grown in the greenhouse and then moves to the forest and is monitered.

Vertical Drawing

Program intersecting between Canoe Making and Koa Tree breeding

Explode Drawing

Envelopes are designed as screen and curtain to apply to the temperate weather. The building itself is designed like a canoe with jointing details like lashing and timber structure and curved form to react to wind.

Explode Detail Drawing

Envelopes are designed as screen and curtain to apply to the temperate weather. The building itself is designed like a canoe with jointing details like lashing and timber structure and curved form to react to wind.

Weather Analysis

Soft wind climbing from mountain

Form study

Adaptation to wind

Front View

Overlapping slab lines

Greenhouse

Koa Tree laboratory

Interior View

Boat detail : Timber structure and Lash joint

Courtyard Woodshop

Sharing Office Near Home

Accessible Sharing Office located in neighbor which can be easily found through smartphone app

CORE1_Broadway Stories Crit by_Anna Puigjaner, 2018 Fall

Printed Glass, Connecting neighbor with different materiality

Located between 72nd and 79th and Broadway Thanks to the global networks of broadband computing, people are connected invisibily through their mobile telephony. Even if an extremely dense city, like Manhattan, seems isolated to neighbors, this social infrastructure has potential to make bonds between strangers. My proposal is about sharing office, which is a new prototype of working space by using domestic rooms as a suggestion of making bonds between neighbors.

According to Bureau of Labor Statistics from the US Department of Labor, about a quarter of fulltime employees have worked from home in some capacity(2018). However, working from home can prove to be challenging with many distractions. Working from another location should be controlled by managers who would be able to monitor the employees getting their work done. If a space is equipped with a monitoring system, as well as adequate security and technology, it could be a good intermediary space both for employers and employees. Furthermore, people subconsciously interact with neighbors during working, but also have chance to physically mingle with others.

Population Discrepancy

People commute to downtown which has the highest density of financial and commerial offices, which makes using space in Manhattan inefficient during the work day, as a big population discrepancy is apparent between day and night.

Easy Access with Smartphone Application

Matching proper conditioned office with simple click through smartphone app

ADR1_ Precedent Study Crit by_Lexi Tsien, 2018 Fall

Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU, Steven Holl Architects, 2018

Steven Holl Architects recently built the institute for contemporary art at VCU. Three bar shaped galleries pierce the central parametric mass in a different angles, which connect between the city and the university. Interestingly, this four separate exhibitions are flexibly working, which means they could be combined as one gallery or could be also separated independently.

Thanks to the semi-transparent material for facade, polycarbonate, the building has different atmosphere between day and night with the light effect: dimming, diffusing and reflecting.

What I explored from this precedent study was that how the lights can make different atmosphere in the building and the circulation in between different angles of galleries. So I tried to make a night ramp which can be operated independently to show the independence of the galleries as well as the dramatic lighting effect.

Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU Different angles

Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU lighting catch (Hand sketch)

Physical Model

Night light which turns on when perfectly matched in a certain position

First Floor Plan Revit-base work

Integrated Design_Greenpoint Philharmonic

Crit by_Nicole M. Dosso(Architect), Michael Steehler(Structural Consultant), Berardo Matalucci(Mechanical Consultant), Tom Reiner(Enclosure Consultant), 2019 Fall

Greenpoint Philharmonic, Buffer greenhouse view, Jihae Park, Maxwell Chen, Anoushae Eirabie, Charlotte Ho

This project explores different levels connecting from the riverside to the ground level with 7 feet height difference. Since the river locates in the flood hazard zone, we leveled up the glass garden not to catch the riverside view but also to avoid the hazard. The glass garden also acts as a buffer zone with plants and printed glass that blocks UV from the west side, and the operable windows set on the roof control the temperature and humidity. To achieve this glass garden to level 7 feet high, we used a cable structured Cantilever hanging on the main building. The featured stairs on Northside pull people on the main building leading to the second floor, which has the main lobby.

There is a media facade alongside the featured stairs inviting visitors into the ground floor or lower, where different themes of theaters locate. All process was working on Revit simultaneously, and structural, mechanical, and enclosure consulting accompanied.

Detail Section

Buffer greenhouse at Westside, Cantilever and cable structure

Detail Section

Buffer greenhouse at Northside, Featured ramp

Professional Work_Multi Complex Building Project Managing_Jiyeon Kim, Sooin Yang, 2017

Outer Facade Fritted Curved Glass

Facade System Detail Section Model

Physical Model

Hand cut model, Historical Culture Park

Graduation Project_[Re]Membrance

Crit by_Kwantaek Jung, 2016 Thesis Project, Sungkyunkwan Univ.

If history park could become interactive space which not only communicate with users by conveying historical stories, but also comfort their own sorrow, it would make people remember the space and let them revisit there to relax. Therefore, this endangered historical space will have meaningful values to protect even it doesn't have tangible evidence.

Program Diagram

Rooms are designed based on existing building footprint to memorize historical facts

Circulation Diagram

Blank space becomes core letting users choose their own way

Blank Space

After given information from exhibiting space, this blank space helps amplifying thoughts

Park

Historical museum could be a park that gives comfortness, and it encourages people to visit more frequently

Physical Models

Drawing Dialogue, Crit by Taeyong Dan, Mirror laser cut, 2019 Spring

Drawing Dialogue, Crit by Taeyong Dan, Mirror laser cut, 2019 Spring

Trans-Geometries, Crit by Joshua Jordon, Candle casted, 2020 Fall

Trans-Geometries, Crit by Joshua Jordon, Candle casted, 2020 Fall