Selected Works by junwon kim

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SASAKI ASSOCIATES

Tecnológico de Monterrey:

Mexico City Campus Master Plan 2035

World Landscape Architecture Awards, Shortlisted, Conceptual – Urban Design category

Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Awards 2023, Winner, Best Design Latin America

The PLAN Awards – Finalist, Urban Planning category

Monterrey Flagship Campus Master Plan Update

Zambrano Hospital Medical School Master Plan

Estado de México Campus Master Plan

LEE AND ASSOCIATES

Pennsylvania State Police Academy Landscape Masterplan

Under Armour Headquarter Stadium Mound Design

3140 Washington Blvd

Viet Tri Phu Tho Landscape Masterplan

Tecnológico de Monterrey:

Mexico City Campus Master Plan 2035

The plan for the Tec’s Mexico City Campus captures our ambition to rethink the relationship of the university to the surrounding urban setting, to make a new kind of contribution to the city, and to the country as a whole, and to rethink the nature of higher education in Mexico.

Following the devastating and tragic 2017 earthquake in Mexico City, when all but one out of eleven campus buildings were demolished, the Tec embraced the opportunity to reinvent itself and transform its urban context. Its location along a subway line and proximity to the largest, yet landlocked medical treatment and research cluster in Latin America presents the ideal environment for the Tec to advance its institutional mission. An integrated planning process was set in motion, bringing together a wide range of stakeholders to create a vibrant 21st century innovation ecosystem by leveraging the Tec’s 34 hectares (84 acres) of land as a catalyst for regeneration and investment.

Student and Career Ecosystem of Mexico

Mexico, with a robust network of diverse industries, is a nest where over 24 millions of students are working and studying. Among the 22 different industrial sectors, the country’s economic influences are strongly dependent on the comprehensive Engineering solution, Information and communication technologies and Education and pedagogy sciences. Among the 789 researchable municipalities, Tlalpan would continue this legacy with the partnership with CCM.

Innovation in Information and Communication Technologies

Agronomy, Horticulture, Forestry and Fishing

Business and Accounting Biological and Environmental Sciences

Social Sciences and Behavioral Studies

Teacher Training

Personal Services and Sports

Mathematics and Statistics

Arts

Law and Criminology Therapy, Rehabilitation and Alternative Treatments

Implementation of Information and Communication Technologies

Coyoacan

Guadalajara

Monterrey

Tlalpan

Xalapa

Puebla

Existing Conditions:

Recovering from Distaster

The campus is located in Tlálpan, a diverse area along the No.1 Line of Mexico City’s subway system, where housing, commercial and educational institutions coexist with Latin America’s largest medical district. This area was significantly impacted by the 2017 earthquake, when all but one out of eleven campus buildings was not destroyed.

Tec Land: Former Indsutrial

Field

Tec Land: Former Bayer

Medical School

Periferico

Earthquake Damage Rescue Teams on Campus

Tec Owned Parcels

Big Moves

The plan establishes an interconnected landscape network that connects all the Tec landholdings through a parklike spine, tying together the academic core, a new mixed-use innovation district and the university’s outdoor recreation fields. KEYPROGRAM INNOVATION

CalzMéxico-Xochimilco

Prol.CanaldeMiramontes

Wellness park

Periferico

Campus common

Innovation park

Distribution

TO HISTORICCENTER

VERGEL DE COYOACÁN PARK

Catalyst for Regeneration

Now being implemented, the resulting plan is an inspiring vision that fosters collaboration and entrepreneurship, facilitates the rapid growth of research partnerships and stimulates engaged learning, all while re-engaging the university with its neighborhood and the larger Mexico City in an integrated, sustainable design approach.

Academic + Wellness Core

The academic core becomes a dynamic center for engaged learning, and is complemented by student housing, a hotel and conference center, and a partnership tower for allied industries and incubators. The Wellness Hub, located at the edge of the campus, creates an inviting gateway to the Tec, and provides medical services to the surrounding community.

Healing the Urban Edges

Calz

Mexico-Xochimilco

The new campus gateway is framed by the Medical School and Wellness Hub. The hub includes a community clinic where medical students provide services and workshops for free to surrounding neighborhoods, helping advance the Tec’s social agenda.

CAMPACT WELLNESS CENTER

Community-Oriented + Health-centered Design

The vertical stacking of wellness programs creates a health-centered dynamic hub for both the university as well as the surrounding district. Its location on the edge of the campus facilitates access to the outside community and sends a clear message of the Tec’s commitment to provide a positive contribution to the city.

The ground floor systems at the innovation district forms a web of porosity breaking down the large research scale building into human scale, continuous display of the collaboration and bridging the city by enhancing public realm.

CalzMéxico-Xochimilco

ROBUST PUBLIC REALM NETWORK

Academia + Industry + Community

Within the academic core, new buildings are the physical manifestation of the university’s groundbreaking Tec21 pedagogical model, where collaborative, project-based learning blurs the boundaries between traditional disciplines and encourages much greater levels of student-faculty-industry collaboration.

TECNOLÓGICO DE MONTERREY :

MONTERREY FLAGSHIP CAMPUS MASTER PLAN UPDATE

The Monterrey campus urban regeneration plan is a historic project by Sasaki that has become a catalyst for the economic engine of the city and Mexico as a whole. Building on this plan, Sasaki continues to update the master plan in 2024, focusing on significant urban nodes including the Engineering Ecosystem, Biotech Plaza, Centrales and Innovation District. The plan has been developed in collaboration with school representatives, student unions, and Distrito Tec, the university’s community service group, resulting in a blurred boundary between the campus and the surrounding community

Architect : Sasaki Associates

The comprehensive master plan for Monterrey Tec is made possible by Sasaki’s Survey tool, which collects data from stakeholder feedback on the campus. By examining a diverse spectrum of areas, including mobility, dining, campus life, housing, and study, the urban design team can provide strategic solutions to support the long-term growth of the Monterrey campus.

(TOOL DEVELOPED BY STRATEGIES TEAM DATA EXTRACTED AND VISUALIZED BY THE AUTHOR)

Monterrey Tec’s Zambrano Hospital seeks to expand in response to the increasing demand in the medical field. Sasaki has been tasked with developing a comprehensive master plan to evaluate the feasibility of adding new medical school and research facilities on Tec-owned properties. The vertical medical school campus is integrated with the research program within the same building to preserve land for future growth. The pavilion-like wellness center, located at the core of the north parcel, serves as a social anchor for both the school and the community.

Architect : Sasaki Associates

Active + Arrival Experience

: ESTADO DE MÉXICO CAMPUS MASTER PLAN

CAMPUS SPINE

Campus Estado de México, located in the logistics hub of the capital, is the oldest campus of Monterrey Tech in Mexico City. The school decided to invest in a new library and recreation center on the campus to update its image and enhance student life.

To find the optimal locations for these facilities, Sasaki was assigned to develop the conceptual design for the new library and recreation center, as well as a comprehensive campus growth strategy.

FIELDS GYM DAYCARE

Architect : Sasaki Associates

FUTURE GROWTN

FUTUREGROWTN

FROMMAINENTRANCE

PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE ACADEMY :

LANDSCAPE MASTER PLAN

The existing Pennsylvania State Police Academy will support a high-quality educational environment for students. The landscape design aims to alleviate the tension between trainees and the highly regulated site. By implementing a tree preservation strategy, the existing deciduous forest is integrated with new landscape features, such as meadows, manicured lawns, and a memorial grove. This approach allows the landscape to serve as a mediator between nature and educational activities.

UNDER ARMOUR SPORTS HEADQUARTERS : STADIUM MOUND DESIGN

Located on the waterfront of Baltimore City and owned by the renowned “U” sports brand, the current large surface parking lot will be transformed into a stadium for performance tests and athletic events. We have designed continuous landscape mounds that will provide additional seating for these events. These mounds will create a gently undulating land art, offering a visually appealing experience for visitors and staff. Ultimately, we envision this site becoming a key regional destination for the city.

Architect :

Architect : Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP

CANNON DESIGN & KIMELY-HORN

3140 WASHINGTON BLVD :

MIXED USE RESIDENTIAL LANDSCPE DESIGN

The project is a landscape design for multifamily housing in Arlington County, Washington, DC. The courtyard offers outdoor activities with serene areas for dining and relaxation. The landscape slope is strategically divided between private units and the communal and rentable areas of the courtyard. The boardwalk serves as the backbone, integrating communal seating, activity zones, and reflective elements. The vertical elements, such as the umbrellas and trees near the architectural columns, connect with the street level.

VIET TRI PHU THO :

NEW TOWN LANDSCAPE MASTER PLAN

Viet Tri is a city with strong tourism characteristics and a suburban feel, characterized by agricultural lands. The design strategy aims to incorporate the fluidity of tropical landscape culture by using water elements as the core structure of the community and employing microclimates as a design principle. This approach will enable the community to have resilient dwellings with robust public amenities in the development area.

Architect : HICKOK COLE

HUMPHREY & PARTNERS

Architect :

academic

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Green Blue Pennsport Waterfront District

Bogota Informal Armature

Farming Nature, Framing Future

Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design Awards Student Competition, Winner

Oregon Avenue East 2025

Grays Ferry Redevelopment

Public Policy and Geospatil Analytics

SCI-ARC

Making and Meaning

KONKUK UNIVERSITY

Second Oceanic Ridge

GREEN BLUE PENNSPORT WATERFRONT DISTRICT : 21ST CENTURY URBAN THIRD PLACE

The project addresses the significance of hidden waterfront resources that people could not easily access due to the caroriented landscapes and industrial legacies common in American cities. The waterfront edges are being restored to a preindustrial coastline to protect the community from climatic uncertainty. The Anchor Transportation Center will serve as a hub for regional and local visitors. East West Park will establish itself as a key regional green destination. The Farming Highway will move I-95 underground and create community green jobs, thereby generating wealth for the underprivileged neighborhood.

Course

Instructor Team Member Role Scale

Pulbic Realm Studio, Spring 2021 Nando Micale, Danielle Lake Junwon Kim

Site analysis, Framework plans, Block, street and building typologies, Land use study, and Renderings

6,700,000 sq.ft.

RISE OF E-COMMERCE &

BOGOTA INFORMAL ARMATURE : WATER BECOME UBIQUITOUS

From the perspective of rapid urbanization in Latin American cities, the growing trend is dominated by informal settlements. This trend is expected to continue, with a billion people projected to live in informal settlements over the next three decades. In particular, Bogotá’s rich natural resources and public health are threatened by rapid urban expansion and increasing social inequality. Therefore, we explored how to balance habitat protection and enhancement with agricultural and productive activities, while fostering high-quality urban environments through this informal armature studio.

Course

Instructor

Team Member

Role Scale

International Informal Armatures Studio, Fall 2020

David Gouverneur

Junwon Kim, Andrew Wang, Kuangyi Tu, Dian Yu, Sun Can, Tianshu Zhaning, Natalia Revelo, Palak Agarwal

Regional site analysis and breakdown of historical issues, Narrative building of urban situation of Colombia and Bogota, Statistical Survey, Masterplan and Framework

563,000,000 sq.ft.

FRAMEWORK & CANAL INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

MOSQUERA AGRICULTURE-ORIENTED GREEN ARMATURE AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

FARMING NATURE, FRAMING FUTURE

FARMING NATURE, FRAMING FUTURE :

REMEDIATING FORMER REFINERY SITE

FARMING NATURE, FRAMING FUTURE

From a sick Philadelphia to a healthy Philadelphia: Philadelphia is in the stage of seeking solutions for the side effects of industrial developments that had been flourishing over decades. The refinery site is a precious opportunity to demonstrate the urban life of next generation in Philadelphia. We identify three major issues: Industrial Transformation, Pollution prevention and Food Security, picturing to provide a series of remedies and establish a friendlt environment with Biotech research hub, New urban farming system and wetland. We are visioning that in 2070, the site will be a vigorous and healthy urban center that serves the surrounding neighborhoods while making Philadelphia a resilient city.

FARMING NATURE, FRAMING FUTURE

Competition

Team Member

Role

Scale

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Winner, Feb 2021, Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design Awards Student Competition

Junwon Kim, Nuosha Wang, Shaoan Chiu, Heejung Shin

Regional Site Analysis, Building Framework, Issue mapping and breakdown risk components, Connectivity and Food Distribution Analysis, 3D Modeling of the Masterplan

56,600,000 sq.ft.

OREGON AVENUE EAST 2025 : COMMUNITY ORIENTED DISTRICT PLAN

The project focuses on community-oriented scale improvements to the built environment of Oregon Avenue East in South Philadelphia. This area faces multiple challenges, including drug issues, rent burdens, poorly managed post-industrial sites, a lack of green infrastructure, and energy insufficiency, while substantial funding and improvements are concentrated in Center City and West Philadelphia. This studio brings together a diverse group of students from fields such as transportation, real estate, community economic development, land-use and zoning, environmental studies, and urban design to address these complex issues in Oregon Avenue East.

Planning Workshop Studio, Spring 2020

SeungAh Byun

Issues and opportunities, Urban design, Community meeting, Developing Phases of the intervention, 12,466,000 sq.ft.

Junwon Kim, Zirui Chen, Trevor James Conley, Diana K Drogaris, Amber Adly Hassanein, Ada Julia Rustow, Tianyi Shao

REPURPOSING ABANDONMENT

Grays Ferry is a neighborhood situated along the Schuylkill River. The community has faced challenges such as car-oriented streetscapes, an inaccessible green network due to railroads along the waterfront edge, underdeveloped entry points on Grays Ferry Avenue, and abandoned buildings on the site. These issues have created a barrier between the waterfront and the community. The project aims to transform potential neighborhood assets by retrofitting the big box sites and creating strategic connectors to the waterfront.

Course

Instructor

Team Member

Role

Scale

Fundamentals of Urban Design, Fall 2019

: : : :

Zhongjie Lin

Junwon Kim, Zirui Chen, Trevor James Conley, Diana K Drogaris, Amber Adly Hassanein, Ada Julia Rustow, Tianyi Shao

Research on historic urban fabric, Streetscape, Openspace typology, Socio-economic analysis and Rendering

680,000 sq.ft.

The median income of Grays Ferry is below the average of Philadelphia negiborhoods and highly constrasted to the center city district. Population of the Grays Ferry is not lower than near neighborhood which means that enough working human resources are expected. Also, people in Grays Ferry are highly depending on the public transportaiton to commuting. Lastly, the percent white is low position compared to otherneighborhoods. Thus, programs for job creating, affordable housing, commercial corridor and accessible communing design should be considered and implemented for Grays Ferry neighborhood.

DATA DRIVEN URBAN MANAGEMENT

Urban planning, urban design, and landscape architecture are increasingly collaborating with data and technology to understand human behavior and the transformation of terrain and nature in response to rapid climate change and social issues. Data science projects address recent trends in large-scale urban policies, such as criminal prediction in Chicago, housing price forecasting in Boston, bike ride-share analysis, and wildfire risk prediction in California. By analyzing these various urban trends from a data perspective, planners can obtain crucial information to improve and protect our vulnerable communities.

Course

Instructor

Team Member

Role

Public Policy Analytic, Fall 2019 / Geospatial Software Design, Fall 2020

Ken Steif / Dana Tomlin

Junwon Kim

Data wrangling, Exploratory visualization and Establishing Prediction Modeling in R, Image processing and score assessment establishment, Satellite Image Classification in Google Earth Engine :

MAKING AND MEANING : BODY MEDIA AND ARCHITECTURE

Our body is a sensory storyteller, revealing the subtle beauty of the human form and its infinite relationships with time. The project integrates these human compositions by combining people’s actions with surreal materials through advanced augmentation technologies. The second project presents a new approach to 21st-century still life, hybridizing abstracted threedimensional forms with light control technology, relief modeling, and projection mapping techniques. These studies capture aspects such as volume, ground, gravity, color management, VR space, and tectonic interdependencies.

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Team Member

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Making and Meaning, July 2018

Alexis Rochas, Matthew Ay, Maya Alam, David Eskenazi

Junwon Kim

Rhino 3D Modeling, 3D scanning, Photoshop retouching, Physical modeling and 2D traditional Japanese paper stress

SECOND OCEANIC RIDGE : SACRIFICED SONGDO NEW CITY

Over 90 percent of the seashore of Incheon city has been landfilled and linearized due to continuous urbanization. Moreover, after the completion of Songdo New City, the growth of the old section of the city was completely obstructed, leading to the loss of habitat for migratory birds. In this situation, the project is reconsidering the landfilled district by navigating the tension between utopian and dystopian coastline development. It aims to synchronize the lives of fauna and flora with urban expansion by employing a pier system that functions as a water filtration system.