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Pratt Institute School of Architecture
KAY SEOUNGHEE CHOI selected work 2018
KAY SEOUNGHEE CHOI +1 941-928-3543 choi9308@gmail.com
EDUCATION 20132018
PRATT INSTITUTE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
Bachelor of Architecture (B. Arch)
EXPERIENCE 20132018 2015
PRATT INSTITUTE PRESIDENTIAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP
Recipient of academic and portfolio based merit
SUMMER INTERNSHIP AT YOUNGHAN CHUNG ARCHITECTS
Seoul, South Korea
20162018
Design 301,302 Prof. Eunjeong Seong
2016
Borders DMZ underground bath house
2017
2017
TEACHING ASSISTANT
ARCHOUTLOUD ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITION 50 FINALIST
BIODESIGN CHALLENGE COMPETITION
Symbiotic Merger
SUMMER INTERNSHIP AT OFFICE OF / URBAN TERRAINS / LAB
Seoul, South Korea
SKILLS Rhino, Autocad, Maya, Autodesk Revit, V-ray, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Grasshopper, Hand drafting(3D-printing, laser cutting), Fluent Korean Language
REFERENCE EUNJEONG SEONG
Adjunct Associate Professor, Pratt Institute Architect and founder of Bell-Seong Architecture; Visible Weather Tel. 646-202-3789 Email. eseong@pratt.edu
LAWRENCE BLOUGH
Tenure professor, Pratt Institute Principal of GRAFTWORK Tel. 718-399-4369 Email. lblough@pratt.edu
BONSAI URBANISM
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Team. Ed Wu Crit.Cathryn Dwyer, Lawrence Blough
PRATT GRADUATE DORMITORY
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Team. Jihyun Kim Crit. Eunjeong Seong
COLUMBIA BOATHOUSE
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Team. Tom Xia Crit. Giuliano Fiorenzoli
ABOVE THE STUD WALL
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Crit. Eunjeong Seong
SONG-DO REFUGEE MARKET
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Team. Yunteak Hong Crit. Deborah Gans
SYMBIOTIC MERGER
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Team. Ann Chai, Andy Kim, Martin Orr, Alicem Bozdag, Alejandra Chinea, Kat Choate, Batya Abadie, Ashley Katz, Elaine Tan Annette Veliz Crit. Richard Sarrach, Catherine Ingraham
[PEN]INSULA·TED TUNNEL
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Team. Tom Xia, Minsoo Kim,Yunteak Hong
POWER TO PROGRESS
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Team. Jusung Bahk
PROFESSIONAL WORK SAMPLE Internship
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BONSAI URBANISM
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Professor. Cathryn Dwyre, Lawrence Blough Collaboration Partner. Ed Wu Design 502 Spring 2018 Flushing, New York
INTRODUCTION Bonsai Urbanism is a technique of architectural hybrid that initiated from a study of bonsai art. Bonsai means Tree in a pot in Japanese. In Bonsai, nurturing is practiced on a body of nature as an art form. Thus, There are always two subjects involved in the art practice, the master and the body of a tree. The morphology of the bonsai tree is a negotiation of the two; the delicate hands of the master seeking for the ideal form and the body of the tree seeking for its growth and survival negotiate with each other throughout the practice. The negotiation between obtains physicality as an intensified body of the tree in Bonsai. Bonsai Urbanism also finds likes find its phsicality as an intensified form of architecture through a complex negotiation of the context. RKO Keith theater in Flushing, NY is chosen to be an operation field of Bonsai Urbanism.
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BONSAI: PLANT IN A POT
Bonsai is a Japanese term for “plant in a pot.” The goal of the art form is to create a miniature but realistic representation of nature through various technics. However, “as opposed to other forms of art, this can never be considered as complete.”(Crespi) Bonsai never stop changing, and its master also changes throughout the tree’s life. Often trees are passed along the family and among the masters. The meaning of bonsai only fulfills when the process of gardening and the morphological growth of trees diverge into a single discourse. To achieve the desired form of a bonsai, one must use a combination of training techniques. Technics in a sequence play the pivotal roles in bonsai making; grafting, dividing, wiring, pruning, potting, correcting and trimming are done carefully to achieve the desired form. Time is scaled in the art of growing bonsai compare to nature. In nature, tree form is a continuous adaptive response to its condition; however, bonsai is “fast forwarded” by the training from the bonsai master. Often architecture is trained by the architects or the users to different forms with the influence of the neighborhood or the city.
Japanese bonsai mastertrimming a bonsai tree
The “Bonsai Urbanism” adapts Bonsai’s training techniques, the ideation of “never be considered as complete” and time from Bonsai. Grafting, dividing, wiring, pruning, potting, correcting and trimming will to define to be the technics in understanding the intended and unintended operations in “hybrid” architecture.
BONSAI TECHNIQUES
Bonsai morphology progresses with bonsai techniques such as potting, wiring, trimming, pruning, and grafting. The manipulated body of the tree transverses the range of time and coexist in multiple frames of the time. The form of the practiced tree newly defines the scale of time as its intensified morphology. We studied major bonsai techniques that enable the tree morphology and intensification of time; then, translated into the progressive formal sequences of architectural object.
Close-up photo of the bonsai trimming technique
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GROWING FROM THE PAST
RKO Theater is a historically preserved for its Spanish revival lobby space and the Eastcoast film legacy in the 1920s. Lobby space is the originating point of the new morphology. Similar to the act of bonsai potting technique, the body of the new form is placed in the midst of the theater lobby. The form that begins from the lobby expands and penetrates outwards reviling its existence beyond its existing firm facade. The form is pulled towards the back of lobby building to create courtyard space and to connect the lobby building to the theater stage. Transformation of frog into Apollo
The new form that begins from the core creates another layer as it grows. The inner core highlights the existing glamorous lobby space and production and consumption culture as a celebrational element. The outer layer creates the overall mass and skin of the new building. The two initiate as a single body; yet, interacts as individual subjects at the intersecting moment. When the inner core penetrates through the existing building facade. The outer skin reflects the morphology as faceted geometry.
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FLUSHING CULTURE AND HISTORY Flushing is a neighborhood in Queens borough, NY. The center of Flushing is located at the northern end of Main street. Flushing-Main Street is the last station of New York City Subway line 7 that connects Flushing, Queens to 34th street Hudson yards, Manhattan. It takes about 45 minutes from Times Square to reach Flushing. Flushing used to be inhabited by Matinecoc Native Americans before the arrival of Europeans. Then, Dutch colony established its settlement in Flushing in 1645. In 1664, English took control of New York; in 1683, the Town of Flushing was established. There was huge growth in population and economy of New York city in 19th centuries, and Local farmland was subdivided for the residential use. In the 20th century, Flushing was connected to the city by train services; LIRR launched in 1910 and New York subway line 7 was connected in 1928. Flushing was once a forerunner of Hollywood, being the heart of film industry of East coast. In the 21st century, Flushing is one of the most racially diverse areas in the world, attracting Asia immigrants. The center of Flushing is the largest and fastest-growing Chinatown holding 30,000 individuals from China alone. The high concentration of asian population mostly consists of Chinese and a small number of Koreans. Only in downtown Flushing, the least amount of residential area houses 500 to 999 Chineses and 100 to 299 Koreans. Most Koreans reside in Murray Hill, and the border between Flushing is a mixed population of mostly Koreans and Chinese. Signages on the facade of buildings are evidence of the border between the concentration of Korean population and Chinese population. On 39th ave. and Union St. which is occupied by a mixture of Korean and Chinese owned businesses such as restaurants, medical offices, law offices, and stores. Signages in Flushing are highly concentrated in Chinese characters. Base on the data and observation in Flushing, the Chinese population and culture have dominated the area. The strong transactional culture of Flushing provides a proving ground for local businesses to thrive. The various stores and restaurants attract a considerable amount of Chinese consumers into Flushing. However, it seems that Flushing only focuses on the consumption or the transaction culture, and the only significant public spaces are the sidewalks. There are public space on the outskirts of Flushing, such as the Flushing Meadows Corona Park and Queens Botanical Garden. Those areas seem to be underused by the people of Flushing and other towns nearby. The density of people is noticeability less as one traverse on Main street from I-495.
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Flushing in the 1930s, Holloywood of the East
Flushing in the 1970s, typical downtown
Flushing today, one of the biggest Chinatown
RETURNING TO FLUSHING
The vacant RKO Keith’s Theather that we have selected as the site for the operation. RKO Keith Theather was opened 1928 marking Flushing’s heyday as Hollywood of the east with magnificent Spanish revival lobby. Flushing, since then, dramatically changed with the new influx of business and culture. RKO Keith Theater remained still at the end of the Main street providing entertainment to the community until it closed in 1982. RKO’s lobby and ticket foyer are historically protected in the 1980s, and since then it was closed and vacant. Over the 30 years, multiple attempts to convert the building to other programs had not succeeded, and the most recent proposal is to build a 25 stories luxury apartment also is placed on hold. RKO is the only building in Flushing that has not been converted by the migrants, and which we wanted to attempt to propose a more community-oriented approach to this building with ideation on intensifying this building both formally and programmatically through the techniques from learning of Bonsai. Program of the proposal is an artisanal fermented production facility with a market for the produced goods, karaoke, super reprogrammable plaza open-air food market, and store.
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SITE AXONOMETRIC
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BONSAI MORPHOLOGY
RKO Theater is a historically preserved for its Spanish revival lobby space and the Eastcoast film legacy in the 1920s. Elaborated grand stair and ticket foyer of a theater a common feature of a grand theater, where visitors not only pass by but also interact with each other. Current Flushing’s main street has complex and dense interiority; yet, it is missing a common ground where people can interact with each other rather and transactional act. The Lobby of RKO not only have an architectural value, but also the spatial culture that Flushing needs. Lobby space is the originating point of the new morphology. Similar to the act of bonsai potting technique, the body of the new form is placed in the midst of the theater lobby. The form that begins from the lobby expands and penetrates outwards reviling its existence beyond its existing firm facade. The form is pulled towards the back of lobby building to create courtyard space and to connect the lobby building to the theater stage. The new form that begins from the core creates another layer as it grows. The inner core highlights the existing glamorous lobby space and production and consumption culture as a celebrational element. The outer layer creates the overall mass and skin of the new building. The two initiate as a single body; yet, interacts as individual subjects at the intersecting moment. When the inner core penetrates through the existing building facade. The outer skin reflects the morphology as faceted geometry.
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39’-8” Level Four
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28’-8” Level Three
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FERMENTING THEATHER The programs in Flushing are unique and vibrant and different from any place in New York. The influx of Asian population, to be specific Chinese, brought with them their culture and their way of life from their countries into Flushing, where in the past it was majorities dominated with white American culture. Since the introduction of Chinese population into Flushing during the 1970’s, new programs were introduced into Flushing-based on the demand of the new community, and some programs were removed such as theater. New programs such as a mall, KTV, Asian supermarket, and parking lot started to populate Flushing, and today most programs revolve around Chinese culture. With a fermented food manufacture and market, KTV, and open-air reprogrammable plaza, the building adopts the culture of Flushing and offers programs that one can find nearby. However, the building inherits the spectacular aspect of a theater from its original program. The building provides a visual and sensual experience of the fermentation culture to the visitor bridging people in different cultures. Building interior mainly divides into two programs; where fermented goods are manufactured and where the fermented good are consumed. There is a temporary living space, cooking and distilling space, and storage to manufacture the goods, which is visually opened to the visitors. Also, there are interior and open-air markets and Karaoke for consuming space.
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3 Storage 4 Packaging 5 Selling
停車坡道 (Parking Ramp)
20'-6"
9'-0"
14'-0"
51'-0"
14'-0"
30'-10"
29'-3"
3’-6”
劇院舞台 (Proscenium) 11'-5" 8'-0" 10'-3"
餐飲 (Open Air Food Market)
10'-3"
生活劇院 (Life Teatre)
8'-0" 10'-3" 10'-3"
超級廣場 (Super Re-programmable Plaza)
8'-6"
商店 (Open Air Store)
19'-5"
電影式樓梯 (Cinematic Staircase) 17'-6" 15'-3"
生產部電梯 (Production Floor Elevator )
10'-10"
23'-1"
市場電梯 (Market Elevator) 老劇院大廳 (Historic RKO Theatre Lobby)
27'-7"
老劇院豪華樓梯 (Historic Grand Staircase To Market)
21'-3"
老劇院門廳 (Historic RKO Theatre Foyer) 玻璃地板 |鹽儲存室 (Glass Floor | Fish Storage)
19'-4"
生產部樓梯 (Production Staircase) 玻璃地板 |魚存室 (Glass Floor | Salt Storage)
16'-8"
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33'-9"
35'-2"
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發酵蔬菜儲藏室 (Fermented Vegetable Storage)
29'-11"
發酵醬儲藏室 (Fermented Sauce Storage)
30'-0"
發酵魚儲藏室 (Fermented Fish Storage) 發酵食品冰箱 (Refrigerator For Fermented Goods)
29'-7" 21'-6"
電影式樓梯 (Cinematic Staircase)
8'-11"
19’-8”
裝瓶區 (Bottling Station)
14'-8" 10’-0" 27'-10" 11'-10" 12'-0" 12'-0" 29'-7"
17’-0”
電影式樓梯 (Cinematic Staircase) 市場花園 (Market Garden)
卡拉OK樓梯 (Karaoke Staircase) 發酵市場 (Fermented Market) 生產部樓梯 (Production Staircase) 滿灑休息室 (Spilling Lounge)
8'-8"
12'-0"
12'-0"
12'-0"
47'-9"
12'-0"
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Market floor
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PRATT GRADUATE DORMITORY
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Professor. Eunjeong Seong Collaboration Partner. Jihyun Kim Design 301 Fall 2015 Brooklyn, New York
“The harder we press our bearings, the more inconclusive our reading become.� -Working Space, Frank Stella
INTRODUCTION The project is to design a graduate housing community of 110 residence capacity to serve Pratt graduate school students. The site of the dormitory is situated in an urban complex of Brooklyn, New York city, where the urban setting of Brooklyn downtown fades out to a residential area and meets the culture of art college. New Yorkers lives in dense urban fabric, where work place and living area coexist. Too many information and expression filled every single grid of the city. Individuals physically close to each other and but barely share their life as a human. In the process of designing, my team pursued unit configuration and facade development to be only functional, but also to embed the complex social culture of Clinton hill residential area.
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SITE SCENARIO The site–incorporating 509-515 Myrtle Avenue and 114 Grand Avenue– is a corner parcel with south and east exposures facing a wide and narrow street respectively. The existing buildings on the100’ (Myrtle Avenue) by 200’ (Grand Avenue) parcel will be demolished. The site will be divided, with a new five-story residential building to be developed by a separate owner on the north 50’x100’d parcels a sister building to 98 Grand Avenue. It is to be assumed that their facades will be identical in appearance with the two buildings being separated by an existing surface parking lot. The proposed dormitory will occupy the remaining 100’x150’ corner parcel to the south. With several new housing projects being developed in the neighborhood, it is expected that the proposed dormitory be cognizant of scale, street wall, and the relationship to Pratt Campus across Myrtle Avenue. The build-able site is 100’ (Myrtle Avenue) by 150’ (Grand Avenue). It is currently zoned R-7A, with a FAR of 4.0, or 60,000 sq-ft. Which will serve as the basis for the proposal? Other zoning requirements are as follows: •Maximum building height: 80.’ •Lot coverage maximum 80%, 30’ minimum rear yard after 100’ from the corner
Site plan: 114 Grand st, Brooklyn, New York
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No.17: Jackson Pollock
PAINTING ANALYSIS In the Jackson Pollock’s painting, there is no narrative figure, no plot, and no intention. However, it is an expression of the painter himself. He translates his pure emotion into brush-strokes. These brushstrokes carry his instant emotion for a moment. When he paints, he lets the paints trace his inner mind. Unlike most of the painting, he is not intended to tell us a story or to depict an event. Rather, Jackson Pollock displays his state of mind through his work. Thus, the painting allows the viewers to freely explore, rather than seeking for the painter’s intention of storytelling. Because Jackson Pollock does not provide a guideline ‘how to read’ his work, each viewer gets to see and feel the painting differently. The engagement of the viewer and the painting sets up a new boundary. The viewer’s thought and emotion towards the work give them a new characteristic inside of the boundary. Thus, when the viewer explores the painting, they become the missing figure of the Jackson Pollock’s work. In doing so, the two-dimensional artwork transforms into the three-dimensional space with the presence of the viewer. In other words, the painting of the Jackson Pollock transcends the time and space and becomes a ubiquitous window. To analyze the Jackson Pollock’s work Number 17, we focused on the relationship between the thickness of strokes and time. We assumed the thickness of a stroke represents the time Jackson Pollock spent on the canvas. For instance, when Pollock moves faster, the stroke gets thinner; when he moves slower, the strokes get thicker. We divided the painting with four vertical lines and two horizontal lines, and measured thickness of the strokes that pass through the lines. The measurement of the strokes translated into the time and displacement the drawings. In the drawings, therefore, the vertical growth represents the time, and the horizontal axis represents the displacement of the strokes.
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Painting Analysis Drawing : Section of Time
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SECTION OF TIME The analysis method allowed us to retract the time that the painter spent on the canvas. The drawing below translates the gap between that viscosity of the paint and movement of the painter created into space, using a language of the section. The movement that delayed in the space due to the viscosity of the paint create the voids of the section and movement that allowed the brush stroke creates the solid of the space. The graph line also interpreted as layers of time, continuity of the movement and undulated movement of the body on the canvas scape. The study allowed us to reinterpret relationship to one’s body on a canvas skin, tracing time and materiality embedded on the two-dimensional surface.
Place Furstenberg #1,David Hockney
The drawing is interpreted as a physical model the viscosity and delay of body movement in the painting are interpreted as the three-dimensional surface again. The transparent skin models at the front reflect the physical representation of the analysis as stretched plastic surface. Light and surrounding of the models also lay along the geometry of the model becomes color and figure of the skin.
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Skin Depth Study Models
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CURVED GLASS PROCESS
Curved geometry of glass panels came after a careful study of the Jackson Pollock’s painting and simplification of the geometries through reflection/refraction study and hear flow study. The convex and concave surface of the building is arranged to help air circulation between an outer curved glass skin and inner facade of the building. While hot air travels upward between the two layers, the undulating surface guides the direction of the hot air and invites cool air from the exterior, creating a continuous thermal flow between a city and the building.
Carefully curated glass geometry, later, tested for heat curving mock-up for fabrication. To simulate curve glass fabrication as precise as possible, we produced series of molds for each geometry in different scales; then, a heated plastic was laid on to follow the curvature of the model. In this process, some of the geometry is eliminated due to failure by making a crease on the glass.
Diagram: From Section of NO.17 To The Depth Of The Skin
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PERCEPTION OF EACH As one can absorb from Edward Hoppers painting, life in an urban city is empty as much as its density. Each person with a different understanding of the complex city and the culture develops unique reading on the city. People in an urban fabric like New York city are physically close to each other in extreme density but a lack of mutual comprehension. The identity of a city is composed of this field of understanding of each people. The project has developed a paradox for the vacant individuals of the full city. These concepts are melted on the plan and the elevation, and the dormitory building acts as a metaphor that reflects the whole city. In the plan view, the glass wall penetrates from the outside to the inside, creating a wall of voids. This void wall creates a superposition of infinite space through the reflection of light and space between the spaces between the units. Overlapping images that are painted as the objects on the other side of the actual space change vaguely are metaphors for fictional individuals in the city. The skin that developed from the Jackson Pollocks painting analysis enhances this characteristic of the urban life. Optic distortion and illusion that caused due to the unique physical feature of a person, specific weather and light of the day, and the interior condition of each unit affect the unique reading of the city on the outer surface of the dormitory building. Each curved glass panel carries a distorted image and becomes a skin of the building as a colony of geometry and distorted facets of the surrounding. Curved geometry of glass panels distort reflection and refraction of the surrounding and city and produce optic illusion. Place of individual people in city stretches and condense on the surface of the facade. Every person sees different distortion on the glass. There is context people share together, yet no one shares identical reading of the context.
Morning Sun, Edward Hopper (1952)
Place Furstenberg #1,David Hockney
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Facade Study: Reflection Simulation
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INVADING THE BOUNDARY OF A BUILDING The ground floor is holding lobby space with a security booth, a cafeteria, lounge area, and an exhibition area. One can descend from the street level after the entrance. Even though there are level difference and separation between the streets-cape and the interior space, the indented voids invite the street-space into the dormitory building. The void wall separated each different program spaces. When one looks at the other space over the void wall, one observes ambiguous distinction of the space he/she is in, outdoor space and the other program over the void wall in the infinite expansion of space with the reflection between two glasses.
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Ground Floor Plan
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TYPICAL FLOOR 2 [4,6
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7 Lower Floor (Left,) 8 Upper Floor (Right) 9 Typical Unit Plan:
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Glass void divides a unit and merges it. A similar concept of urban interpretation was carried on the element. When a person walks along the staircase, one can see reflection and repetition of one’s body on the two adjacent glass wall. The glass void provides a certain degree of privacy allowing the sense of co-existing. The void wall, also, physically invites urban context beyond the boundary of the building mass. A person on the street can only see a distorted image of oneself and the surroundings on the closer curved glass facade; yet, the person is able to observe the hint of interior living space through the void.
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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BOATHOUSE
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Professor. Giuliano Fiorenzoli Collaboration Partner. Tom Xia Design 302 Spring 2016 Inwood, New York
INTRODUCTION This boathouse project persists in many conflicting relationships. The goal was to position the project in a confrontation between nature and human, urban and suburban, and public and private relations. At the very tip of Manhattan, the site overlooking the Hudson River is surrounded by Columbia’s sports complex and residential areas. The site is located in the bay, facing the public park with Columbia stadium back. Like the bay allows the water to drain and be come a land and also fill itself with water, could the boathouse allows all the members of tension within its body?
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SITE SCENARIO As one approaches to the site, the sequence of scale, scene,and material suggests interesting qualities. From the main street of the neighborhood (Broadway) to the bay area of the site, It presents the scale changing. Broadway is filled with Industrial and urban fabric bearing an unusual scale such as Industrial structure, railroad and station in the air, storage,and commercial and residential building. Entering to 218th street, the view rapidly changes, rugged landscape and tranquil water surface contrast and reflect the surrounding and the sky. Over the calmly flowing Harlem river, Henry Hudson bridge overlooks the scene. Looking more closer, variety of materials starts to catch eyes. Subtle difference of lawn, gravels, and metal components divides walkways. Plants in the wetland dances along the river breeze; Rough rocks near the mud possess contrast of the texture.
Inwood, New York (Google Map)
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INTER-RELATED MOVEMENT OF ROWING The inter-related movement of rowing as a combination of body, oar and boat, and the sequential movement of water, tapped by the oars and broken by the boat, creating wave and diffraction. It is a series of movements that affect each other due to forces and make this beautiful sport. So a study for this relationship is necessary to understand it. The tectonic expressions are an opportunity to express the force of rowing.
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Ground Floor Plan
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Second Floor Plan
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33’ - 06” Roof Level
26’ - 00” Second Level
10’ - 00” First Level
Section A-A’
32’ - 06” Roof Level
26’ - 00” Second Level
10’ - 00” First Level
Section B-B’
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33’ - 06” Roof Level
26’ - 00” Second Level
10’ - 00” First Level
Section A-A’
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Detail Section
Exploded Axon of Brick Skin System
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ABOVE THE STUD WALL
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Professor. Eunjeong Seong Research with Sungjin Kim Design 402 Fall 2017 Concord, California
Suburbia, Bill Owens
INTRODUCTION What is a new type of housing? Numerous houses are constructed repeating a single type especially in suburban area. Even though the stuffs that fill in a house and daily life style have impacted by technology development, the house itself barely improved itself. Alike to many technologies such as smart-phone, GPS, and Iot that have shape our daily life and economy structure, would technology help housing issue of today? Scarcity is the initiation factor of economic problem. Physical building of a house cannot avoid to face scarcity of building lot or material; yet, energy generation at a house using unlimited source such as sunlight or geothermal may impact economic of housing. When the infinitely generated energy is transformed into the resident ‘s economic activity rather than using the infinitely given solar energy for the individual, the housing economy can go in a totally different direction than ever. The project deals with changes in the economic structure of individuals and communities beyond its structure and space by overlapping solar roofs in lightweight residential buildings commonly found in the suburbs.
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EMBODIED ENERGY Energy has always involved in the architecture issue. It was, yet, something that we always have neglected. In the physicality of any building, energy issue persisted as embodied energy. Unlike to the production of the energy or operational energy that begins after the construction of a building, embodied energy lies in the entire life cycle of the building. This research opens up how the issue of energy often neglected in an architectural discussion and proves the necessity of the new method of constructions. Embodied energy includes energy that consumed for material sourcing and manufacture, transportation and distribution, construction, maintenance and demolition of a building. To understand where the embodied energy, Mies Van der Rohe’s Farnsworth house, and a typical light framing house found on the project site were deeply studied and compared. The two houses have entirely different methods for construction; steel framing with glass facade, and light wood framing with stud wall system. Farnsworth house with steel structure and glass facade consumed a much more significant amount of embodied energy. However, most of the elements that construct the building can be recycled or reused after the demolition of the building, Whereas, the light wood framing building consumes most of its energy on foundation and wood framing which can be hardly recycled after the use. The recurring energy is neglected factor of the study. However, one can assume that light wood framing house needs constant maintenance because of the materiality of the house.
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EMBODIED ENERGY (BTU)
VOLUME (FT3)
EMBODIED ENERGY (BTU) 154,649
71,219,400
6.67
8.48 2,085,657
3,349,493
13.58 840,227
53.37 3,399,627
72.81
243,275
26.67 541,816
14.26 3.13
829,033 27,413,558
11,643,393
3.72
1.58
71.84 96,048
5.63 258,761
15.87
37,755,228
3.96 13,880,669
7.83 15,917,550
1,656,699
10.48 683,168
2.16 13.27
1,252,848
5.92 12.00 1,352,693
3.42 3.42
11,643,393
26.67
60,869,889
8.26
3.36
225,192 525,253 540,640 356,126 443,436
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1.58 3,435,400
40.00 11,352,960 2613095
16.53 180.00
22199350
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350.70 75.00
Farnsworth House, Mies van der Rohe
Typical Light Framing House
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Embodied Energy In A Residential House
COMPARISON STUDY Life Cycle Energy Of A Building Operational Energy
Embodied Energy
Heating and Cooling
Direct Energy
Indirect Energy
Lighting and Ventilation
Construction and Assembly
Initial Embodied Energy
Raw Material Extraction
Appliances and Equipment
Prefabrication Activities
Demolition Energy
Transporation To Factory
Other Use
Transportation
Reuse/ Recycle/ Disposal
Product Manufacturing
Administration use phase
72 Insulation
28 4"x4"x10' Steel Bar
228,133,123
48 ft3 Concrete
5,011,392
Transportation To Site construction phase
42
end of life phase
Production phase
189 ft3 Concrete
23,760,468
24,116,101
8 4"x4"x10' Steel Bar
63,670,199
50 4"x4"x10' Steel Bar
59.04 ft3 1/4" glass
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4"x4"x10' Steel Bar
plywood
104,617,287
303,390,225.00
100 ft3
182 ft3 Travertine
9,257,495
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505,212,618
54,346,080.00
135,918,501
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4"x4"x10' Lead Bar
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200 ft3 Concrete
5,011,392
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189 ft3 Plaster
200 ft3 Concrete
273 ft3 Mortar Bed
23,511,018
Construction Element
354 ft3 99 ft3 48 ft3
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Material Volume
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273 ft3 59.04 ft3 1/4" glass
BTU 182 ft3
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Embodied Energy
240 2x4 Lumber
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72 Insulation
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5,759,883
38 5/8 Gypsum board
38 1/2" plywood
3,952,050
4,615,953
4,615,958
716,520
Shingle
19,351,454
5,831,488
77 2x4 Lumber
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72
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60 1/2" plywood
64 5/8 Gypsum board
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3.1 Vinyl
55,383,700
55,328,700
200 ft3 Concrete
170,925,120
38 1/2" plywood
4,615,953
4'
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240
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1,053,948
364,606
32" 8'
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9,598,937
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MEANING OF ENERGY
An average Californian house consumes 5914 kWh per a year for operational energy. A typical light wood framing house consumes about 263,200 kWh (= 900,000,000 BTU) of embodied military energy inConcord its entire lifehousing cycle, which is equal to the 44.5 years The site was built to serve as military housing. Two of the operational energy of the house. If the housing does families resides in a duplex house,Plan is mirrored notalong exist years for its lifespan, the embodied extactly themore center then line of 44.5 the house. energy worths decades of operational power can vanish.
Concord military housing The site was built to serve as military housing. Two families resides in a duplex house,Plan is mirrored extactly along the center line of the house.
SITE
CA edge of concord residential ART station and the free field.
Site Location: concord CA The site is located on a edge of concord residential Typical Housing In area where it meets BART station and the free field.
Project Site, Concord , CA
ilion BTU? Analysis of aTypical House in the Site
Gasoline = 115,000 BTU/ Gallon
2000 sqft, 5000 BTU of energy is need. U can air-condition 7500houses for 24 hrs.
81 ft 900,000,000 BTU = 7826 Gallon of gasoline
x1000
Conventional House Embodied Energy Study Case: x1000 sqft residential x1000 2000 building 34.5 MPG
How Much Is 900 milion BTU?
12.4 Gallon Gas Tank Capacity
Light-framing structure: Wall and roof studs
x1000 x 631 full gas refill = 269997 miles of driving =10.8 rounds of the Earth =46.6 round trips of pratt to concord trip (2893 miles)
x 365days
Embodied Engery Includes Energy To... x 20.5yrs
x1000
Extract the raw materials to make the building component Transport the raw materials to the factory Manufacture the building materials Transport the building materials to the building site 5” solar panel generates 265 hr Putwatts the per materials together at the building site Maintain a building component throughout its life (recurring embodied energy) ge daytime of CA is 5.5 hours Dispose of a building component or recycle it at the end of its life
e energy consumption of a household is 30kwh erate 30kwh 20.7 planel is needed
x1000
Interior Wall Finish
Insulation
x1000
x500
x 365days x 20.5yrs
Photovoltaic solar energy panel
Miscellaneous 3%
solar panel to serve 10 households 60*62
Sheathing with Weather Barrier x1000
Wood Stud (2x4)
exterior space per a house on site
112*112
16" O.C
x1000
x 24hr
Electricity use per a CA household
60*60 exterior space per a house average concord
x1000
Exterior Wall Finishing layer
900,000,000 BTU can air-condition a 2000sqft house 24 hrs for 20.5 year.
nergy panel
5 watt of electrocity is generated by one solar panel
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A conventional residential housing (2000sqft) contatins Honda Civic almost x1000 x1000 x500 900,000,000 BTU of emboided energy. an air-condition a 2000sqft house 24 hrs for 20.5 year. x 24hr
31 ft
To air-condition 2000 sqft, 5000 BTU of energy is need. 900,000,000 BTU can air-condition 7500houses for 24 hrs.
39”x65” solar panel generates 265 watts per hr House
Water heating 3%
29434 sqft to serve 80 households
Space heating 4%
Exterior space
Lighting 27%
Solar panel
Laundry 5%
Maximum unit arrangement housing on a site Average daytime of CA is1825.5 hours 1457.5 watt of electrocity is generated by one solar panel
Average energy consumption of a household is 30kwh to generate 30kwh 20.7 planel is needed
Dishwashers and cooking 5% Pool and spa 6%
Solar panel
exterior space per a house on site
Refregerator and freezer 19%
Air conditioning 10% TV, PC, and office related 15%
60*60 exterior space per a house average concord
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112*112 solar panel to serve 10 households 60*62
29434
Site introduction Concord, CA Concord (KONG-kord) is the largest city in Contra Costa County, California. At the 2010 census, the city had a population of 122,067 making it the 8th largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 1869 as the community of Todos Santos by Salvio Pacheco, the name was changed to Concord within months. The city is a major regional suburban East Bay center within the San Francisco Bay Area, and is 29 miles (47 kilometres) east of San Francisco.
ary housing using. Two s mirrored the house.
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North Concord/Martinez
SITE
Site Location: The site is loc area where it Project Site, Concord , CA
Conventional House Embodied Energy Study Case: 2000 sqft residential building
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A conventional residential housing (2000sqft) contatins almost 900,000,000 BTU of emboided energy.
Embodied Engery Includes Energy To...
900,000,000 BTU = 7826 Gallon of gasoline
81 ft x1000
Extract the raw materials to make the building component Transport the raw materials to the factory Manufacture the building materials Transport the building materials to the building site Put the materials together at the building site Maintain a building component throughout its life (recurring embodied energy) Dispose of a building component or recycle it at the end of its life
34.5 MPG 12.4 Gallon Gas Tank Capacity Honda Civic
Average CA house consumpt 5914kwh (Electricity) per a year (= 20,179,405 BTU)
year.
x1000
Analysis of aTypical House in the Site
Gasoline = 115,000 BTU/ Gallon
Light-framing structure: 16" household O.C Electricity use per a CA Wall and roof studs
900,000,0 31 ft
Exterior Wall Finishing layer Sheathing with Weather Barrier
x 631 full gas refill = 269997 miles of driving =10.8 rounds of the Earth =46.6 round trips of pratt to(=5914 concord Energy consumption: 20,179,405 BTU kwh)trip (2893 miles)
Miscellaneous 3%
Water heating 3%
Average Californian household
Space heating 4%
Insulation
Wood StudLighting (2x4) 27%
Laundry 5%
Interior Wall Finish
Dishwashers and cooking 5% Pool and spa 6%
Refregerator and freezer 19%
Air conditioning 10% TV, PC, and oďŹƒce related 15%
900,000,000BTU of embodied is equal to 44.5 years of electric energy use.
space per on site
panel to serve ouseholds 2
House Exterior space
29434 sqft to serve 80 households
Solar panel
Maximum unit arrangement 182 housing on a site
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Solar panel
Photovolt
Conventional Roof Solar Panel Install
exitsting site
Volumn study [house]
Volumn study
exitsting site with 35*100’ solar panel
FACING THE SUN
Orientation study
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Most of the housing is planned along the direction of the roads. Addition of the solar panel on the roof of a building limited for its orientation and size. One the project site, likewise, the houses are not oriented for the solar panel. To study solar panel and angle efficiency, the orientation of the photovoltaic panel and profiled are deeply studied. To minimize energy for demolishing and new construction. A solar roof is overlaid on the top of the existing house, intersecting with the existing on the first floor and expand to the second floor with a void at the center of the house.
CA roof pitch is 4:12. Roof angle is 14.04.
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Sun path diagram
Concord,CA
Angle study
37°59'43.5"N 122°01'18.6"W
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summer 75.4°
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winter 28.5°
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Angle study
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Radiation Analysis Tilt angle efficiency study
summer
Formula driven optimum tilt angle// summer (latitude x 0.9 -23.5°)10.69°
Formula driven optimum tilt angle// winter (latitude x 0.9 + 29°) 63.19°
53546.607234
Bisecting angle of summer and winter optimum 36.95°
1202.34 kwh/m2
919.38 kwh/m2
1283.19 kwh/m2
74246.254933
Lofted surface using summer and winter angle 10.60° ~ 63.19°
63462.75045
70139.615174
New optimum found by scripting 28.61°
1242.34 kwh/m2
72908.178855
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winter
605.25 kwh/m2
35320.442565
721.95 kwh/m2
738.62 kwh/m2
42692.931698
38639.303373
42965.180517
688.61 kwh/m2
41342.913103
9/15-3/15
all year
1877.03 kwh/m2
108844.23
1915.51 kwh/m2
1646.20 kwh/m2
total:95511.66
total:101346.25
075 | Above The Stud Wall
total:112301.87
1953.98 kwh/m2
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SONG-DO NORTH KOREAN REFUGEE MARKET
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Professor. Deborah Gans Collaboration Partner. Jay Hong Design402 Spring 2017 Song-do,Incheon
INTRODUCTION The Korean peninsula, one land divided into two, is the one of the few places in the world that still retains the tension of the past World Wars On 27 July 1953, one national culture, one history, and thousands of families of Korea were pulled apart by two opposing ideologies [?] along the 38th parallel. From that moment on, the political faiths of North and South Korea have forked into two extremely different directions. The goal of this design project is to configure a marketplace for defectors or refugees from the North to the South. North Korean defectors experience many difficulties in South Korea during their settlement period. Because the separation of the two Koreas began with the warfare that left wounds and tragedy, most of South Korea cannot accept or welcome North Korean in what they consider to be their own land. Common beliefs are represented by such phrases as “North Korea is our major enemy,” “The war can restart in any second,” and “Never trust the communist people (or ’the reds’).” This project is situated at the very northern edge of Song-do, the reclaimed artificial island on the west coast of South Korea, facing toward NonHyeon-dong across the water. Song-do is planned to be a future center of technology and global business for South Korea. NonHyeon-dong is one of the very few areas in South Korea where North Korean refugees have been concentrated. They prefer to stay in the area mainly because of the Namdong industrial zone and the distance to Seoul.
081 | Song-do North Korean Refugee Market
Song -do Master Plan Rendering by KPF
Namdong Industrial Zone Aerial View
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REFUGEE RESIDENCE
SONG DO ISLAND
INDUSTRIAL ZONE
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Song-do Site Map
THE PLANNED FUTURE METROPOLITAN SONG-DO One of the development’s stated goals is to help the Korean nation adapt to a changing global economic environment, spur job creation and provide modern, energy-efficient dwelling units to residents across the economic spectrum (Simon 150).” The master plan for Song-do asserts that it is rather to be connected to the international centers around the globe than the physically connected neighborhood across that water. The representatives of KPF emphasis on the global, inclusive characteristic of Song-do by saying “Song-do was planned to bring together an international mix of residents into a unified community. The public served by the city is not just Korean citizenry. It is conceived as world citizens united in their interest in doing business in Asia. The language of the public space in English. An international school prepares students for post-secondary education around the world. Regarding nationality, Songdo is a highly inclusive city (156).” However, It is obvious to observe selective inclusiveness of Song-do; it attracts certain qualified members of global society into the city rather than having an opened scope. Thus, the deployment of a refugee market targeting the North Korean refugees market challenges the way city oriented. The placement of the market nearby the boundary of Song-do become a bridge to connect the mainland to the newly reclaimed land, drawing population belong in the mainland of In-Cheon to Song-do across the water. Strangers in Song-do dose not defined with where they originated from; rather they are recognized by the selective inclusiveness. International and economical quality of a person determines the strangeness of oneself in the ideal metropolitan image of Song-do. Even to South Korean, therefore, Song-do provides a different degree of hospitality. It is a land where the nationality of a person is no longer important than the Song-do’s planned value.
083 | Song-do North Korean Refugee Market
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ONE LAND, TWO KINDS Division and adaptation are two keywords to develop a Refugee market. How can the placement of an architecture bridges over the division of North and South and Song-do and Mainland In-Cheon? The clearly divided lands have the different cultures that built almost intentionally opposed to each other. Is it only the past and emptiness that the two share? The search of existing commons that is still melted into North and South Korea is needed; greater scope to see the North and South as Korean peninsula helped us to find the common between the two. The natural similarity and culture of the two nations became a foundation stone to build the project; It is a mudflat. Mudflat holds an interesting concept as itself. In Korean language, Mudflat is 갯벌 [gaesbeol], which is in composed of almost and earth. The Korean language recognized the duality that lies in the ever-changing identity of Mudflat. In the process of the reclamation of Song-do, the Incheon mudflat was infilled with the sand from an unknown land, and the edged were defined in a hard line. The North Korean refugee market in Song-do breaks the smooth shoreline of the artificial metropolis island and inserts the buried identity to its surface again. The simple revealing of the uncontrolled site will shift the relationship between the site and the architecture. This action of architectural placement impact not only on the scale of a building but challenging the planned identity of the island. In Why Site Matters, the authors point out three distinct areas of the site, which it can impact: the area of control, encompassing force that acts upon a plot, and area of effect (Burns and Kahn 12). The shift of the relationship impacts the area of effect of the site and “... effects situate design actions in relation to wider processes including the often-unpredictable change propelled by design intervention (12).”
085 | Song-do North Korean Refugee Market
1’-0”=1/32” _ 1F PLAN
Ground Floor Plan
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Second Floor Plan
087 | Song-do North Korean Refugee Market
LIGHT SHED STRUCTURE
Another device engaged is pre-fabricated shed structure, which is commonly found in the industrial zone across the water from the site in the visible distance. Song-do was developed following the urban-scape ideal that was established in the early 1960s with the symbolic instrument of Metropolis- the freestanding high-rise and the serpentine freeway (Frampton). The insertion of iconic industrial shed structure within the metropolis that is built opposed to the industrial culture leaves a critical self-identifying question to the surrounding context as its existence. From the mainland side across the water, it suggests conscious invasion to the unreachable new metropolitan.
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ROOF PAVING PANEL CONCRETE SLAB STEEL BEAM CEILING PANEL
HORIZONTAL SUB-STRUCTURE
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089 | Song-do North Korean Refugee Market
SYMBIOTIC MERGER
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Professor. Richard Sarrach, Catherine Ingraham Research with Ann Chai, Andy Kim, Martin Orr, Alicem Bozdag, Alejandra Chinea, Kat Choate Batya Abadie, Ashley Katz, Elaine Tan Annette Veliz BDC Challenge Fall 2017
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FUTURE: EXCHANGE OF RESOURCES
INTRODUCTION As student architects we are faced with the responsibility of designing the future. Architecture is a series of relationships between us - humans - and the built environment. The history of architecture starts with primitive enclosures which provided humans with shelter (1st primitive). Today, we design spaces to be comfortable at any given moment, focusing on an amalgamation of mechanical systems and fossil fuels to do the work for us (centre pompidou). In the future, we will understand spaces as a series of exchanges between us and our built environments. We will design buildings as living, resilient ecosystems. (arch 3.0) This future relies on understanding how to design exchanges between materials and energy. We focused our project on the design of a bio-interface between two bacterial entities and a building wall system, using water in both its liquid and vaporous forms. Water is necessary to life and is an underutilized source of energy. It is often wasted. We researched and brought two biomaterials—SCOBY (itself a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast) and Bacillius subtilis—into close proximity to each other. We then designed an interactive symbiogenesis between these bacteria in order to produce and support a new kind of bio-wall system.
091 |Symbiotic Merger
Buildings consume nearly half of all the energy produced in the United States. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the Building Sector consumes nearly half (47.6%) of all energy produced in the United States*. Seventy-five percent (74.9%) of all the electricity produced in the U.S. is used just to operate buildings. Globally, these percentages are even greater. By 2035, the world’s energy consumption will increase by 35 percent, which in turn will increase water use by 15 percent according to the International Energy Agency. The architecture of the future will be made up of a system of exchanges between water, energy, and biomaterials. SCOBY and Bacillus subtilis can work with water to create living architecture that responds to environmental changes while generating energy and filtering water at the same time.
Bacterial Cellulose filtered: 0.00.
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Water unfiltered: 0.072. Tissue Paper filtered: 0.039. Filter paper filtered: 0.023. Distilled water: 0.00
093 |Symbiotic Merger
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SCOBY LOOP SYSTEM SCOBY stands for symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast. SCOBY is a byproduct of Sugar-Tea fermentation associated with yeast and bacteria fermentation. Scoby in the project is utilized as a filter structure in the house. The fine cellulose of the SCOBY fillers rainwater and grey water. Greywater (loop system with SCOBY) which makes up the most significant portion of wastewater from our homes, up to 40 gallons per person each day, is captured and filtered through SCOBY panels and reused.
Ingredients 1. Tap water 2. Tea 3. Sugar 4. Lemons
Thickness based on number of days in the pool
Mother Scoby Growth along surface obstacles Scoby production system
095 |Symbiotic Merger
LIVING ARCHITECTURE Evaporation from SCOBY loop filter system is an untapped source of energy. Researchers at Columbia University are developing a prototype to capture the energy that evaporation can provide through experimentation with a bacteria called Bacillus subtilis. The properties of Bacillus subtilis cause it to expand and contract based on relative humidity, as if it were a muscle system.
TEAM SYMBIOTIC MERGER : THE APERTURE WALL TEAM SYMBIOTIC MERGER : THE APERTURE WALL
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Bacillius Subtilis Responsive wall details
TEAM SYMBIOTIC MERGER : THE SCOBY WALL Bacillius Subtilis Responsive wall details TEAM SYMBIOTIC MERGER : THE SCOBY WALL
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Collaboration with Tom Xia, Minsoo Kim,Yunteak Hong Fall 2016 DMZ, Korean Peninsula
[PEN]INSULA·TED TUNNEL
DMZ UNDERGROUND BATHHOUSE The geopolitical oasis sites itself within a desert of history. The DMZ exists as the world’s last physical remnant of the wars of the twentieth century between communist China and democratic United States. An immense void carves the 38th parallel creating a physical barrier that draws its visitors to a voluntary confinement. The tunnel typology heightens the sense of self-confinement through a procession of programs that reveals the monolithic walls and the oppressive horizon. The [Pen]insulated Tunnel contradicts its prospect of reunification by negating itself from the site and current circumstances of the DMZ.
099 | [PEN]insula·ted Tunnel
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Collaboration with Jusung Bahk Fall 2017 Seoul, South Korea
POWER TO PROGRESS This was a competition project to suggest presidential residence of South Korea. South Korea has experienced radical political growth demanding more power to the people. The current presidential residence is located behind the traditional Korean Palace, which kings of Chosun used to reside before democracy. The location of the presidential residence, thus, inherits the symbol of Chosun Dynasty. Our proposal suggests relocating the presidential residence at the abandoned energy generator, which has supported the growth of the modern culture of South Korea. National Assembly is located right across the Han river and make new axis for the new government with the presidential palace. The site will be shared with a solar power distribution center, which would collect electricity generated near the area and redistribute. The power, both political and electric, would be redistributed clean and even for the future of South Korea.
0101 | Power To Progress
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Internship at Younghan Chung Architects Summer 2015 Busan, South Korea
FIVE TREES This is professional work sample that I’ve participated in Summer of 2015 at Younghan Chung Architects. As an intern, I worked on 3d and physical model making, visualizing, drafting, and communication. The firm was mainly focusing on a residential project, and architecture exhibition. The sample work is a residential project in Busan, South Korea. The project reflected unique density and housing typology of the neighborhood that occurred due to the steep topography of Busan. To camouflage into the neighborhood, the material and shape of the buildings borrowed from the local building. To mimic size and density, a house was dived into five buildings. The outdoor space, thus, resembles alleyway and provides pockets for a light.
0103 | Professional Work Sample
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Internship at Younghan Chung Architects Spring 2016 Site Unknown,Italy
UNIVERSITY RESIDENTIAL PROPOSAL The proposal is for a residential building in a university. The focus of the project was to make a village-like atmosphere in a single residential building. To realize such focus, Unit models with different sizes with an outdoor space were suggested. The outdoor space acts as front and backyard of the unit in a building and outer membrane of the structure serves as porous fence rather than building the facade.
Unit Type Example
Organization Diagram
0105 | Professional Work Sample