Portfolio by Onyung Kim

MONOGRAPH ONYUNG KIM

MONOGRAPH ORGANIZATION

ACADEMIC WORKS M.ARCH

B.ARCH

Thinktank - 65

07 - 19

Art alive + Living with highway

21 - 35

Crafted in music

37 - 47

Ensemble center

49 - 57

Living with strangers

59 - 67

Tree house

69 - 77

Library in a park

79 - 85

Leaf village

87 - 97

Mutual enrichment

99 - 105

PROFESSIONAL WORKS A

Center one office

108 - 111

Dubai Majan housing

112 - 113

Baku residential complex

114 - 115

Bangkok sports complex

116 - 117

2014 Asian Game sports complex

118 - 119

M church

120 -121

Thinktank-65 PROJECT INFORMATION YEAR

2016 SPRING (ACADEMIC STUDIO - GRADUATE 3RD YEAR - TEAM WORK)

CRITIC SUSAN CONGER-AUSTIN / PAUL D. ENDRES (ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY) A LOCATION

BISCAYNE BAY, MIAMI FLORIDA

B LOT AREA

5,000,000 SQUARE FEET

C PROGRAM

2 MILE HIGH WOOD TOWER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH NEIGHBORHOOD

DESIGN CHALLENGE : RE-THINKING METROPOLIS (CLOUD STUDIO) CITY IN THE SKY - A STUDY IN LIGHTNESS Introduction by Susan Conger-Austin and Paul D. Endres In a world of ever expanding population and diminishing resources, it is imperative to explore sustainable models for the built environment. The studio will focus on the potential of a material - WOOD - to transform architecture by its inherent material properties. Employing the concept of “lightness” as a strategy, the studio will attempt to use the least amount of material to provide maximum benefit to achieve a new typology of the vertical city. We will focus on how “the invention of form coincides with the invention of the building process.”

The studio will also

explore sustainability, building technology, long term preservation and rehabilitation of wood. We will create a community in the sky for the brave citizens of tomorrow. This new model for urban growth can be considered by the creation of living landforms, one that is built over time as the metropolis matures. Investigation will be undertaken to evaluate the scale of the civilization versus the building. New modes of transportation will be also be investigated for a community with a commute time of less than 15 minutes. New systems will enable new forms of building instead of the building informing systems. Concurrent with the studio is a seminar/laboratory on materials where we will work both technically and programmatically to achieve our goals. Materials having a high strength to weight ratio have the highest potential for gains yet builders and designers have been resistant to embrace such materials. The vertical city has been idealized and romanticized throughout history from Babylon to Manhattan. Mythic cities such as Gotham from the Batman series to Starwars’ Coruscant provide provocative models of an imagined utopia. Adriaan Beukkers identifies “lightness” in his book of the same title as “interrelated analogies of shape, structure, process or idea”. Embracing the embodiment of lightness in the crafting of space will be our goal. 1 Rafael Moneo from his discussion of the origin of architectural form in the work of Antonio Gaudi).

FORECASTING COLLAGE Worlds seen and imagined : City in the sky

Collage image 1 Bottom of the 2-mile wood tower : Oceanography community

Collage image 2 Tip of the 2-mile wood tower : Meteorology community

Idea - Speculative

Structure - Appropriate

Looking upon the researches we had with Miami, we found out that there are three significant chances we could take in as a part of our two-mile tower: the

How does this mega structure become habitable? We tried to dissect this megastructure into manageable scales. Two layers placed inside the diagonal grids

grand magnanimity of nature, educational needs in the society, and the city set up as networks of nods. The tower becomes a “think tank”, where research,

become empty lots, residence, research units, and public spaces. Five sets of diagonal research units become nets, cages, lattices, cells, and prisms. Rhom-

education, and living come together as a whole. This new neighborhood, ‘wooden island’, would provide rich, active, and interconnected living spaces in the

bus units take form as research pods wrapped around event and circulation pods. Event pods, where scientists find rest and refreshment, are divided

city.

vertically.

Lightness - Essential

Public / Private - Indispensable

What opens up our eyes? When do we say “Eureka!”? Brilliant ideas and findings grow up like a tree. By trimming off less essential concepts, genuine

In our tower, public and private works like an egg. Like white of an egg protects and supplants the nutrition for the yolk, private spaces for researchers is

thoughts sprout out of speculations, take their forms, and start taking wings! The wonder of nature needs to remain, while trying to respect and challenge

sufficient in making a ‘think tank’, but without the help of public space, the tower is unable to function properly. For example, main public space, which binds

the limitations of the structure at the same time. Atmospheric conditions vary depending on the height of the tower, and these differences enable the ‘think

all programs together, have two sectors: ‘cliffs in the valley’, the gathering space for the scientist; ‘caves on the hill’, the entrance for the visitors. ‘Cliffs in

tank’ to have five different environmental research departments. Diagonal rings become thirteen rhombus units, and strong vertical spaces invert the con-

the valley’ is an academic agora, which is the center of all scientific activities, but it would not function as effective without the latter, which embraces func-

ventional logic of the space and provide innovative grounds of living.

tions for tourists and residents.

MIAMI SITE CONDITION AND SCALE COMPARISON

BUILDING MATERIAL AND STRUCTURAL GEOMETRY

Finding priorities for site location and Understanding of scale

Employing lightness strategy and Possible geometrical thoughts about 2 mile high infrastructure

Bay Harbor

Historic architectures

Surfside

Luxury Shopping

Indian Creek Wealthy village Celebrities

North Miami

Florida International U. High crime / Low education Low living cost

Biscayne Point

Single family homes

Miami beach

Biscayne Park Old town High living cost

Miami Shores Suburban setting Vegetable garden Urban farming

North Bay Village

Winter residence Restaurants, Night clubs

El Portal

Florida native slash pine forest Selection criteria : Relatively fast growth rate, proper performance of strength and stiffness

Pelican Harbor

Nature preserved Bird sanctuary

Nature preserved Bird sanctuary Boat tours

Biscayne bay

Ship route

Biscayne bay neighborhoods in Miami Characters of surrounding neighborhoods and ship routes Conceptual column combination in section Key issues : Structure + Fire proofing + Utility

Vertical

ÂŠ Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

Scale Comparison - Height Tall buildings in the world and 2-mile wood tower

Scale Comparison - Area Illinois Institute of Technology campus in Chicago and 2-mile wood tower

Iterations of structural geometry Key issues : 1/4 height and plan ratio in terms of wood material

Diagonal Outer structure

Vertical

Diagonal Inner structure

ORGANIZATION OF THE TOWER

DEFINING NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTER

Scenario for hypothetical situation in the structure

Level 5 Prism

Public spaces between units

Level 4 Cell

Semi-public spaces in units

Level 3 Lattice

Domitory and residential units

Prism

Meteorology

Cell Research and residential units Void and Occupied spaces in the structure

Energy Factory

Semi-Public spaces Vertical connection in each units

Lattice

Bio-mechanics

Level 2 Cage

Cage

Natural Species Public spaces and hyper loops Connection between public spaces

Hyper loop stations Entry location in each units

Level 1 Net

Net

Oceanography Diagonal spaces The 2-mile wood tower is a city in the sky. The tower is divided into 5 zones vertially and 13 belt horizontally. There are 21 research pods, 3 domitories, 16 residential neighborhoods and 19 empty quarters for potential additions. In order to connect these terriories between each sectors, 2 public spaces are designated as an overlapping zones, cliff in the valley and caves on the hill. Moreover, 4 semi-public spaces are merged between each neighborhoods. 12

Campus map Correlative condition between neighborhoods

PUBLIC & PRIVATE SPACE IN NEIGHBORHOOD UNITS Imagining scale of vertical public space

Cliff in the Valley View toward outside

Cage Vertical connection Caves on the hill View toward inside IIT Campus in Chicago

Michigan Avenue in Chicago

Concept model Diamond space between inner and outer structure

Iteration model Horizontal spaces in diagonal structure

Cage neighborhood Public space and research pods

Cliff in the valley View in the diamond structure

Zoo

Amusement park Forest

Library

Gym

Domitory

Geometry

Farm

Valley

Research pods

Food Hyper loop station

Event pods

Open space Circulation

Public programs Circulation

Programs

Public space Circulation

Circulation pods

Structural system

Research pods

Private space

VISUALIZATION A Computer aided rendering

Cliff in the valley View toward Miami downtown

Campus quad in the valley Gathering space for scientists and students

Public space Zoo in the Cage neighborhood

Public space Forest in the Cage neighborhood

VISUALIZATION B Physical models

16 feet tall model by studio members

Art alive + living with highway PROJECT INFORMATION YEAR

2015 FALL (ACADEMIC STUDIO - GRADUATE 3RD YEAR)

CRITIC SUSAN CONGER-AUSTIN / PAUL D. ENDRES (ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY) A LOCATION

OMNI, MIAMI FLORIDA

B LOT AREA

250,000 SQUARE FEET

C PROGRAM

MIDDLE INCOME HOUSING + ARTIST WORKSHOP + INFRASTRUCTURE

DESIGN CHALLENGE : RE-THINKING METROPOLIS (CLOUD STUDIO) MIAMI POROUS BOUNDARIES Miami is referred to as the capital of the Americas, the hub for all of Latin America, North America and the Caribbean to come together through leisure, commerce, finance, ports, cruise ships, air transit, and above all a unified goal to fulfil the Miami American dream of excess, luxury and comfort. Miami also acts as a corporate switching station, providing headquarters for Latin American companies that are working to expand their businesses to the north and for North American businesses looking to expand south. This geographic advantage, has created a robust financial industry in Miami with more banking headquarters than any other cities, less New York. The perceived stability of the US economy has triggered investors to buy real estate as a safe place to store their wealth. The unique and diverse population of Miami stems from its 100 years of development which has attracted both a southern migration of snow birds, retirees, second home-owners and investors, as well as the migration to the North of Latin American and Caribbean immigrants Revolution. This diversity has created a vibrant place where three quarters of all Miamians speak a dialect of Spanish at home, and is most evident by the multitude of separate municipalities that make up Miami. Over the past two decades the contemporary arts scene has exploded, fuelled by December’s annual Miami Art Basel, put- ting Miami at the epicenter of the contemporary art world and attracting attention and investment from design driven person- alities. This has led to a new found appreciation and restoration of Miami’s Art Deco and Modernist history has consequently triggered the development of new interpretations of Tropical Modernism as seen in Herzog & de Meuron’s latest Miami work. The city of Miami began as the end of a rail line in order to support tropical agriculture, and its development started with the Royal Palm Hotel. The driving forces of speculation on the tourism industry and the parallel development of housing to support tourist-turned-full-time-residents shaped the formation of the city. Little city planning and a lack of diversity in city economics led to a city of paradox, sprawl and boundaries.

READING MIAMI & SITE CONDITION Site problems and priorities for conceptualization

As positioned by Rem Koolhaas, Miami and its developer driven past is generic. Typical American

Nature

urban issues plague Miami such as a homogeneous economy, which is highly susceptible to global fluctuations; and an imposing car culture, due to the lack of a robust public transportation network. In counter point, Herzog & Meuron argues that cities are specific. Paradoxically Miami’s specificity is partially due to its developer past. Issues to be considered for the planning of Miami’s future include:

Buildings

- Miami’s lack of unification and its division into 34 municipalities - High barriers for entry in home ownership - Strong division between the working class and the served class - Lack of engaging outdoor and public space - Consequences of rising tides and hurricanes

Consuming

The studio will deal with this duality in understanding both the generic and the specific issues affecting Miami’s development and the physical, economic and cultural boundaries that have been constructed as a result. The studio will develop strongly grounded proposals on how to make these boundaries more porous as a means to knit together neighborhoods, cultures, economics and amenities.

Transportation 5 miles radius

1 mile radius

Response The studio will create Hybrid Housing based proposals engaging both culture and infrastructure that will spark dialogue on growth and the sustainable development of Miami. The hybridization of multiple building typologies will allow for ex- ploration of experiences and synergies that would otherwise not exist. Each typology supports new events, spaces and consequences to produce community engagement and urban growth. Using Herzog & de Meuron’s three Miami based projects-the Jade Signature, the Perez Art Museum Miami, and 1111 Lincoln Road- as typological references for housing, culture and infrastructure, the studio will cross-pollinate mid to low rise housing for middle income families, education based cultural activities, and both public and private transportation. In addition, the studio will zoom out in order to understand the larger context of how the three typologies can begin to affect the surrounding urbanity. DeFlorida State : 19.9 million People

Miami Metropolitan : 5.5 million People

Miami Downtown : 80,750 People with Daytime Population 222,000

veloper driven Miami has had very little large scale city planning over the last 100 years, which has resulted in a bifurcated pattern of growth by interstates, causeways, rail lines, canals, rivers, and bays. The studio’s hybrid interventions will explore how new private developments for Miami integrate large scale infrastructural moves in order to soften the physical boundaries within the current urban fabric. Proposals should encourage sustainable growth that is dense, shareable, specific, and global. Working closely in conjunction with the MCHAP seminar, the studio will develop an understanding of the analytical model and thought process that drives the office of Herzog & de Meuron. This process will be critical in the discourse regarding the history, context, typologies and tectonics of Miami in its various scales.

Adrienne Arsht Center over MacArthur Causeway Viewed from Perez Art Museum of Miami by Herzog & de Meuron

Condition under MacArthur Causeway Viewed from Biscayne Boulevard (US1)

HIGHWAY BEGINS Prologue thoughts about infrastructure

Housing The makeup of downtown Miami’s housing stock is very similar to that of numerous American Cities. The economics of the urban housing market both support luxury units for high earning professions, and subsidized arrangements for low-income families, excluding the middle class. In Miami’s existing housing market, the education system, and infrastructure networks do not support urban family raising. However, the downtown neighborhood offer culture and vitality, in addition to density efficien- cies, that cannot be found in the suburbs. The studio will develop an understanding of the many facets, as mentioned above, that affect existing housing stock in order to make an argument for unprecedented arrangements. The housing will be developed with an emphasis on affordable urban family dwelling. The housing component will knit into the neighbourhood supportive programming such as comfortable outdoor space, communal interactions, education and daycare, groceries and provisions, and public transportation. Additionally, Connector and Divider : Re-interpreting highway as a landscape In history, highway has become a mean to conquer spatial distance and also transformed the meaning of the territory it traversed. Miami’s highways, created to increase access and foster interconnectedness in the expanding city, simultaneously served as a tool of disconnection and sometimes willful displacement. At the height of the civil rights movement, the city constructed bridges of concrete over its landscape and its most difficult social issues. It was a convenient way of turning a blind eye to the realities of everyday urban life. On the other hand, we can regard highway as a transportation machine that aspires to become another landscape in the city.

the acute environment issues specific to Miami should be considered.

Concern about highway ? Lewis Mumford, 1958, ‘The highway and the city’ Perhaps our age will be known to the future historians as the age of the bulldozer and the exterminator; and in many parts of the country the building of highway has about the same result upon vegetation and human structures as the passage of a tornado or the blast of an atom bomb.

Museum of Science and is located on the northern edge of the Central Business District, on Bis-

Re-thinking highway ? It was Reyner Banham in Los Angeles, unsurprisingly, who considered transportation beyond its modern function of circulation as a form of art and entertainment. Though we might acknowledge the practices of early designers like Frederick Law Olmsted (or Thomas Vint and Stanley Abbott), who turned roadways into pleasure boulevards, it was really Banham who brought the road into the realm of performative infrastructure. Driving, for Banham, was a research method as well as an indulgence, and he divided the immense, unintelligible space of Los Angeles into ecologies that had as much to do with access as geography. Banham’s road as a space of entertainment, culture, recreation, orientation, and identity-as well as mobility is the way contemporary urbanity re-figures infrastructure in a more interactive and relational context.

Cultural Context Miami currently has many of the cultural centers necessary to support the well-being and entertainment needs of a large city. These institutions educate and inspire the city’s inhabitants from all socio-economic strata. Museum Park includes the Perez Art Museum Miami, the Miami cayne Bay. This park connects downtown Miami to the water from the American Airlines Arena to the Bay-front Park. Directly between the Museum Park and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts rubs the MacArthur Causeway, which connects Downtown Miami but also the cultural resources and the continuation of a waterfront park. Infrastructural Context Miami is a car centric city - a hundred years of tourism driven planning decisions and developments has left Miami with little more than parking lots, hotels and beaches. The vast amounts of open land, the relative low density, the petite public transit system, and lack of available public funding has created a city in which the car must be accommodated. Additionally the MacArthur Causeway currently separates the Central Business District of northern Downtown Miami and Wynwood - warehouse district that is beginning to gentrify due to the city’s expanding contemporary art industry. The neighbour hood is in the process of being rezoned to encourage growth and density. The studio will evaluate the current impact the causeway has on the neighbourhoods as well the proposed re-routing plan by the DOT and any future public transit to connect Downtown Miami to Miami Beach. How can an architectural intervention located on this boundary benefit both itself and the surrounding neighborhoods?

Picnicking beside the Autobahn (Reichautobahn, 1933)

Seen through the windshield (Double Standard, 1967)

Reyner Banham loves Los Angeles (1972)

Velocity is pleasure (Plunder road, 1957)

RESEARCH : NATURAL SYSTEM OF FLORIDA

Source Credit : USDA Geospatial Data, https://gdg.sc.egov.usda.gov Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, www.myfwc.com

Rivers

Wading bird rookeries

Crocodile critical habitat

Sea turtles

Lakes

Scrub Jays

Spiny lobster sanctuary

Mangrove habitat

Wetland Habitats

Red cockades woodpeckers

Manatees

Coral, natural and artificial reef area

RESEARCH : NATURAL SYSTEM OF MIAMI

Source Credit : Miami-Dade County GIS DATA, www.miamidade.gov

Manatees

Sea turtles

Canals

River

Mangrove habitat

Parks

Salt water intrusion

Topography

Brownfield

Artificial reef area

Flood hazard zone

Storm surge zone

DEFINING USERS & CONCEPT

PLAN & ELEVATION

One of users in this housing is a Wynwood artist who enjoys working among walls and columns in urban structure. He or she recalls spending most all his or her childhood free time under the highway streets. Under the interstate-95 highway, Wynwood’s characteristic ware houses and funky retails will allow artists to create enterprises and affordable small scale workshop. Downtown business and real estate interests targeted Overtown, Miami’s inner city black ghetto, to make way for expansion. Urban renewal schemes and interstate highway construction demolished Overtown’s business center and much of its housings.

Wynwood (Art district)

Ground Level

Highway Level

Activate neighborhood by overlapping three identities with Infrastructure

Overtown (Gentrification by highway)

West Elevation

Public space (Leisure with nature)

Interlace programs with highway

South Elevation

ISOMETRIC VIEW & PROGRAMS

VISUALIZATION Physical model

Artificial landscape for artist community and housing as well as an urban landscape for public space The Performative infrastructure uses itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surface together with the housing as an involvement for Miami cityscape. The surface of roof structure can be used for as either green screen or LED programmable media surface, which can become media for messages. Workshop studio for Wynwood artist community and middle income housing for overtown community The free standing articulations are what create an open network of circulation under the highway area. The negative spaces between the various sized volumes are outdoor workshop studio for Wynwood community and serve as catalyst spaces for the block as well as for Art and Entertainment district in Miami Downtown. In this way, overlapping programs are created ensuring lively spear of action throughout the day and night.

Aerial view from south-west

Plan view with roof structure

Plan view without roof structure

01 Minneapolis Courthouse Plaza, Minneapolis, MN, USA by Martha Schwartz Partners 02 The Citadel Shopping Center, City of Commerce, CA USA by Martha Schwartz Partners 03 - 04 Mural in the Miami Wynwood art district

MCHAP Seminar : JADE SIGNATURE by Herzog & de Meuron The process of making the Jade Signature by Herzog & De Meuron required understanding its relationship to the beach on the west and streetscapes of the east. Unlike the two buildings that resides on the either side of the Jade Signature, the mass of the building is slightly tilted and two core structures stabilizes most of the weight & force of the building that allows continuously narrow columns that has been articulated to produce aesthetics, as well as functional use such as dividing the spaces for privacy.

To make the model at the scale of 1/16â&#x20AC;?= 1â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, we got to see the model relationship to the site in a scale that shows how considerate the Jade Signature was to the Miami context as well as the appreciation of the ocean views as well as the city. To think about sizes and the functional aspect of the elements that makes up the Jade Signature (columns, slabs, cores, and the gathering space on the ground level) made us to think like an architect to come up with a final product that Herzog & De Meuron was trying to portray on the landscape of the Miami. Students : Yechan Shin / Woei Cherng Low / Kyeore Lee / Onyung Kim / Junghoon Lee

Crafted in music PROJECT INFORMATION YEAR

2015 SPRING (ACADEMIC STUDIO - GRADUATE 2ND YEAR - TEAM WORK)

CRITIC THOMAS E. BROCK (ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY) A LOCATION

UPTOWN, CHICAGO ILLINOIS

B LOT AREA

66,000 SQUARE FEET

C PROGRAM

MUSIC INSTITUTE FOR ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION

DESIGN CHALLENGE : RE-THINKING METROPOLIS (INSTITUTION) Completion of this studio is the last of the four milestones of the curriculum (consisting of Element, House, Neighborhood and Institution) to be completed before entering into the Cloud Studios where the research and design emphasis will be at the scale of the metropolis. As a bridge between the concerns of the neighborhood and the problems of the metropolis, this concentration on institutional architecture will look at sites/programs within the city of Chicago and seeks to engage students in discussions of how new buildings can and sometimes do affect their surroundings. The studio offered this semester will deal with problems, programs and contexts that are unique to institutional architecture within the city and challenge students to create forwardlooking strategies for renewed civic and cultural development. CONCEPT Learners, visitors, educators, and any passerby of The Uptown Center of Musical Arts will experience the rhythm from the music being played within as well as the melody of the building itself. For this project, the great challenge encountered was the necessary control of acoustic elements. The conflicting noises from its surroundings lead the placement of a circulation system that acts as an acoustical barrier, as well as a rhythmic transition through the spaces. The placement of support program along the east of the site provides an additional obstruction of sound from the El passing by. As a contrast, while the organization of space on the interior is intended to resist noises, the plaza that faces the shared street of Clifton embraces the sounds of the city. Through a sense of blurred limits between inside and outside, the ground floor acts as a welcoming space, bringing people in from the streets and through the plaza. But what calls out most to the building users is the theater. With the intent of objectification of the built environment, the red sculptural element encased by the glass panels at the edge of the building translates the space into the apotheosis of the built melodies all around. The many components that, once together, work to create harmony, infuse music into the building in which it is contained.

SITE CONDITION & PRIORITIES

PROCESS

Providing site problems and priorities for conceptualization

Chief organizing thoughts or decisions

Noise

hybrid spaces

faculty offices superintendent office institution offices

lecture hall / large practice rooms classrooms / small practice rooms

support

performance space

residential

institution restrooms janitorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s closet storage conference rooms multipurpose rooms

the object

recreation space apartments access to rooftop terrace

historical

horizontal circulation

residential circulation

instrumental archive music archive special collections

noise barrier

vertical circulation

connectivity circulation

parti

historical Uptown bridges with the modern Uptown Center for Musical Arts below grade

framing the object

Shadow from Sheridan Bank

cultural hub [urban catalyst]

groove corridors [inspirational circulation]

acoustic control [noise levels]

connection to Clifton [collaborative site]

embrace city sound [incorporating noise]

the central and most active space within Uptown which welcomes all varieties of culture

activated circulation paths that encourage and support musical experimentation, practice, or performance

exterior and interior noise levels which are controlled based on architectural design; controlled expressed and received frequencies

aspect of site that provides a physical or experiential connection to thread between sites

provide an artistic outlet for the sounds of the city to become an activated section of plaza

programmatic spaces that double in use based on relationship of space and scale of function

administration

tech labs IT help desk stage equipment storage/stage system storage

Theater zone

Clifton Avenue

hybrid spaces [mixed-use]

technology hub

harmony of spaces [architectural poetry]

social stimulator [activate collaboration]

maintaining Uptown character [new within the old]

for the future [forward institution]

when the spaces created are coordinated as a unit, they provide a metaphorical poetic frequency of feelings within each space

design of space which encourage a social environment rather than a privatized experience within the institution

allowing a forward thinking institution to exist within the character of a profoundly historical neighborhood

planning for the future institution and the facilities that would be necessary for the development and success of music

PLAN

ELEVATION & SECTION

MUSIC THEATER Computer aided rendering

Entrance music theater Gathering and playing instruments in the hall

Theater detail

Inside music theater The melody of the contours provide both acoustical benefits and aesthetically appealing features.

Stratum in the music theater The repetition of the layers into the interior creates a harmony of space and a dynamic performance experience.

VISUALIZATION A

VISUALIZATION B

Computer aided rendering

Physical model

Main entrance plaza Students are going to school in the morning

Model View Aerial view of Uptown neighborhood

Outdoor plaza Gathering and playing game in the afternoon

Model View View of main entrance plaza

Model View Aerial view of music institution

Ensemble center PROJECT INFORMATION YEAR

2014 FALL (ACADEMIC STUDIO - GRADUATE 2ND YEAR)

CRITIC DAVID BRININSTOOL / ANDREW METTER (ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY) A LOCATION

PACKARD MOTOR PLANT, DETROIT MICHIGAN

B LOT AREA

114,000 SQUARE FEET

C PROGRAM

STUDENT CENTER FOR TECHINICAL TRAINING INSTITUTE

DESIGN CHALLENGE : RE-THINKING METROPOLIS (NEIGHBORHOOD) To rethink and reshape the ruins of Detroit’s historical Packard Motor Plant, we are charged to investigate and propose a new dynamic and adaptive urban node that will reinvigorate Detroit; to rethink urban practices surrounding public transportation, sustainable systems, and spatial organization. The historic Packard Motor Plant has gained substantial media attention and has become emblematic of Detroit’s failures. This 40-acre site once represented the height of the American Industrial Era; boasting 15 factory buildings, which produced luxury vehicles and employed 36,000 people. It now stands gutted and vandalized, as a symbol of Detroit’s staggering collapse. However, due to its strategic location 7 miles from Detroit's city center, the Packard holds immense potential to address the sprawl that slowly killed the city. By introducing mixeduse program and public transportation your design should focus on making The Packard a node of new urban density to support the city center and accentuate the City of Detroit. The aim is to memorialize the Packard’s current ruined state, while simultaneously imagining a future that will heal Detroit technologically, socially and aesthetically. CONCEPT MUTABLITY, FLEXIBLITY AND ADAPTIVITY FOR COLLECTIVE ACTIVITY What is needed in student center? The student center want to become an collective part of techinical and culinary school education experience as an attractive, accessible and functional place for every students of the community. An an flexible place for institute activity, the student center should be enable students, faculty and neighborhoods to gather, recreat and communicate each other.

FORECASTING COLLAGE

CONCEPT & SITE PLAN

Ruined state caused by an economic failures

The feeling of student center with strolling movement

Brochstein pavilion

MTCC

Barcelona pavilion

Ewha woman university

Existing

Beyond boundaries

Kiley garden

Proposed

Collage image Packard plant / The more, the better / TV cello by Nam june Paik

One of the more significant factors behind Detroit’s decline is the high Illiteracy rate, and lack of an educated work force. Detroit’s economic problems stem from many sources, however one obvious element that can contribute toward a holistic solution, is workforce education, leading to jobs, leading to industry being attracted to return to the city, leading to a rejuvenation of Detroit neighborhoods. It’s no secret that the “Middle Class” in this country is struggling. The disparity gap between the wages of blue collar workers and upper management grows wider every day. Detroit’s problem (among many), seems to be that the middle class in the City has disappeared. There is much discussion these days centered around “Living Wages” and Cities such as Chicago and Seattle, have recently passed ordinances addressing these issues. Without an economic raison d’etre for the development of the Packard Site , economic vitality (i.e., LIFE) ,will never return to the neighborhood level. And essential to that effort (at its core) is the development of an educated workforce. The skills that the proposed facility will address, lie in that great gap between the strictly lower level Service job, (McDonalds) and the upper management job. They are the skills that are required to keep this Country, our Cities, and our institutions, running, and thriving, but seem to be rapidly disappearing. These are time honored skills , and their modern day equivalents, can be taught and nurtured in a large scale,- seriously constructed,- regionally oriented program. Professor Andrew Metter FAIA 50

Site plan

PROGRAM

ELEVATION & SECTION

Mutablity, flexibility and adaptivity for collective activity

South Study room Administration office Guest hotel

Incubator playground Student living room GYM Exhibition

West

Child day-care center

Welcome center Postal service

Book shop Cafeteria Outdoor stage

Study room Cafeteria

South

Urban edge

Swimming pool Bowling alley

West

SEQUENCE Computer aided rendering

View from hotel room A business man and student in the guest hotel

Outdoor stair stage Flaner in the basement plaza

Auditorium lounge Discussing students after lecture in the auditorium

Swimming pool Swimming and contemplating in the pool

VISUALIZATION A

VISUALIZATION B

Computer aided rendering

Physical model

Main entrance plaza Students are going to school in the morning

Model View Aerial view of student center

Model View View from the urban edge & Aerial view without roof

Outdoor plaza Gathering and playing game in the afternoon

Model View View of main entrance plaza

Living with strangers PROJECT INFORMATION YEAR

2014 SPRING (ACADEMIC STUDIO - GRADUATE 1ST YEAR)

CRITIC KARLA SIERRALTA (ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY) A LOCATION

BRONZEVILLE, CHICAGO ILLINOIS

B LOT AREA

6000 SQUARE FEET

C PROGRAM

HOUSE

DESIGN CHALLENGE : RE-THINKING METROPOLIS (HOUSE) Envisioned as part of “Nowness”, the school’s new approach centered on the metropolis, the course focuses on imagining possible city futures through the design of a small house. How do we forecast domestic life in the next 10, 25, 50 years? What spaces will we need as family patterns change? how do we inhabit spaces in a world where our belongings are becoming more and more intangible? how does the era of ubiquitous information, social networking and virtual friendships influence our living habits? How do new technologies and processes affect the ways we live? The studio asks these questions amongst many others. CONCEPT In history, Chicago has welcomed many visitors coming from many different locations. Specifically in the Bronzeville neighborhood, many visitors and students come and go from the IIT campus. The “Living with Strangers” house is a new dwelling model for a typical family and multiple guests. The top, more private level, houses the family, while in the lower, more autonomous spaces, up to three guests can live at a time. The common spaces, such as living room, kitchen and dining room, are located in between, where all inhabitants interact and share their daily lives.

FORECASTING COLLAGE

SITE ANALYSIS DRAWING

RE-appropriation : The feeling of a refuge in Chicago

The image of Bronzeville neighborhood

Collage image Marc-Antoine Laugier’s the primitive hut / Chicago street and buildings / Kiley garden to Art Institute / Georg Kolbe’s Alba

Chicago is one of the big cities in the world. In history, the metropolis has absorbed various strangers coming from different locations or overseas. The culture of the metropolis reveals diverse points of view in the city. However, for citizens, I think, the world without strangers is the ideal in regard to the concept of habitations. Strangers might want to find common ground in their unfamiliar cities. According to Aldo Rossi, the city is the locus of the collective memory. At this moment, what will be the proper home in the future? For me, one of the most important factors of architecture is how a collective memory is formed around a singular space. For example, in my memory, when I went to the Kiley Garden for the first time, its trees were interlaced within the strolling space in the City of Chicago. In the city, people were interlaced with Kiley Garden’s retreat. It was not only a strange and exotic garden but also a familiar space for strangers. During the movement of strolling to find some good feelings in the extended space beyond the implied boundary, I was able to understand the Primitive hut’s principle. Laugier states that Ancient Greek temples owed their form to the earliest habitations erected by man. He believed it was the standard form which all architecture embodies. Frank Lloyd Wright was believed to have used the idea of the primitive hut heavily in many of his designs. A design with this in mind is characterized with an emphasized hearth, roof, and foundation. At this moment, Georg Kolbe’s Alba (Dawn) gains comprehension and stabilization of her surroundings.

Bronzeville Schematic collage, displaying imaganed movement through street and alley, created among sparsely located building masses

In history, Bronzeville was a “city within a city”. However, in today, Bronzeville neighborhood has been changed and seemingly there is no black belt. There are diverse strangers in the neighborhood. Moreover, if we set back from the neighborhood’s major road, there is a quiet alley ways, where people have conversation on the street, give a blank stare from their window and children play with their siblings and friends. Like C. Alexander’s mentions about quiet backs, alleys have a hidden talent. The front street has often been seen as a decent path, whereas alleys have provided space for servant purposes, such as garbage pathway, small manufacturing, rear houses and garages. Alleys have been a part of Chicago’s physical fabrics since the beginning of nineteenth century in American urban planning. Though, around World War I, modern planning theory showed a ambivalence about its advantages, alleys have developed unique social and environmental meanings. Alleys have survived in Bronzenville neighborhood and provide benefits for the community. The awareness of alleys help contribute hugely to the pulse of Bronzeville’s daily life.

FIELD TRIP SKETCH

CONCEPT & DEFINING USERS

Case study of good space / March 8, 2014

Organization of activity

Concept & Program model In order to combine with public and private space of each members, the family and guest, the mutual space is located in-between private spaces. The space expresses the simplicity of the neutral container. The guest areas of this home are conceived as autonomous units as well as public space. They can be shared with the family at the working space.

Farnsworth house, Plano, IL, Mies Van Der Rohe, 1951

Ford House, Aurora, IL, Bruce Golf, 1948

Farnsworth House, Mies Van Der Rohe, shows perfect beauty based on materiality and detail. The house’s structural concept is simple but thoughtful in terms of detail. The house’s facade is surrounded by a clear floor to ceiling glasses. Mies’s meticulous investigation about the site environment allows the user feel the window’s meaning. Moreover, Farnsworth House shows the architect’s thinking about thresholds. Mies made in-between space at the entrance which allows people feel the transitional point. Indoor corridor space express the feeling of calm as well as diffusing illumination ambience from one’s back.

Ford House, Architect Bruce Goff, has the flood of light, which comes through skylight and circular motif glass wall. The house consists of various materials, such as steel, glass, marbles, copper, rope and coal. The glass windows have green plants at the indoor side. For me, the feeling of height between ground and upper floor was rich. The fire place plays an important role in the house. Moreover, Sidney Robinson, ArchD, Professor of Architecture Emeritus at Taliesin, has contributed greatly to explain the house and give us life lessons that define house, architecture and life.

My scenario is that the family members are consisted of typical and traditional family type. Father is an architect and mother has an ability to playing piano. There are two member of guest coming from out of the family. The strangers can share their interests with the family. The objects in the house will be simple and they will have mobility due to the developing technology of devices. They want no sedentary space thus the family member can express their needs. Habitable space is a space in a building for living, sleeping, eating or cooking. In home, habitable space should have sleeping space, kitchens and living spaces. In addition to the basic spaces, there are adjoining spaces, such as bathrooms, circulation spaces, laundry rooms, saunas, storage cellars and garages. They are the necessary support spaces to the habitable spaces. Sleeping spaces is greatly dependent upon the needs of the user. Kitchens size and location are also dependent on the cooking and socializing preferences of the users.

PLAN

ELEVATION & SECTION

Floor plan with physical model view

Elevation with physical model view

Aluminum Double glazing glass

Bedroom Master bedroom Family room

Double glazing glass

Second floor Concrete Double glazing glass

South

Dining Cooking Living room

East

First floor

Strangerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s room Communal space

Main street

Ground floor

Guest room Working space Basement floor

VISUALIZATION A

VISUALIZATION B

Computer aided rendering

View from main street The mutual space is located between private spaces and it can have ambient light by using translucent glass materials at the faรงade.

Living room representation This image represents in-between space, which is surrounded by unsettled corridor. The corridor space has potential by using as a green house or storage area or library or closet storage.

Tr e e h o u s e PROJECT INFORMATION YEAR

2001 (ACADEMIC STUDIO - 3RD YEAR)

CRITIC YOON KYUNG CHOI (CHUNG-ANG UNIVERSITY) A LOCATION

SEOCHO-GU, SEOUL, S. KOREA

B LOT AREA

950 SQUARE METER

C PROGRAM

MIXED (HOUSING + RESEARCH CENTER)

DESIGN CHALLENGE Invent a hypothetical client and develop architecture project based on client. SCENARIO Client is a forestry researcher who enjoys living among the trees. He recalls spending almost all his childhood free time up in the trees. He did eat bread, read books, write letters to his friends, and even sleep in the trees. There was always quiet in the trees and no interruptions from others. Client’s wish is to create house where he can feel the nostalgia of his childhood. When the client climbs into the trees, he can feel sense of space created by lighting coming through tree leaves. CONCEPT Space, Light, Connection, Climbing Tree, Staircase The act of climbing trees can be compared to climbing stairs. Spatially, the stairs are a monocoque form like tree branches. The variety of spaces between the branches can draw an analogy between the Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth house (flat space) and Adolf Loos’s Raum plan (three-dimensional plan). Spaces in the tree canopy allow for an increase in the space in the vertical direction. With the vertical misalignment that occurs here, the staircase is the key element for connecting the twisted space as it brings lighting from outside to inside through opening in staircase.

FORM & PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT Form development diagram + Program distribution diagram

core 40’ x 15’

Housing units aggregated as a rectangular block.

core 40’ x 15’

Core component

Indoor space

Outdoor space

CORE COMPONENT STRUCTURAL GRID 20FT. X 15FT. Passenger / Freight elevator, Evacuation Building Boundary - 80FT. XStair 75FT. Electrial / DataFloor / Sprinkler Height room - 10FT. (16 Story)

CORE COMPONENT Passenger / Freight elevator, Evacuation Stair Electrial / Data / Sprinkler room

Terrace GROUND LEVEL BASEMENT LEVEL BASEMENT LEVEL A mix of private and public terraces are placed inOutdoor space - 3,900 -sq.ft. Program - Parking Program Parking a sporadic locations - 150 sq.ft.spaces provided 42 parking spaces providedto minimize gaps existing Indoor space 42 parking between neighbors or building users and non-users.

3RD FLOOR GROUND LEVEL space - 3,900 sq.ft. Outdoor spaceOutdoor - 0 sq.ft. Indoor space Indoor - 2,700space sq.ft. - 150 sq.ft.

3RD FLOOR Outdoor space - 0 sq.ft. Indoor space - 2,700 sq.ft.

Stair (Internal connections) 6TH FLOOR Outdoor space - 900 sq.ft. Indoor space - 4,500 sq.ft.

15TH FLOOR 9TH FLOOR Outdoor spaceOutdoor - 1,500space sq.ft. - 600 sq.ft. Indoor space Indoor - 3,000space sq.ft. - 2,700 sq.ft.

15TH FLOOR Outdoor space - 1,500 sq.ft. Indoor space - 3,000 sq.ft.

Research

Residential

STRUCTURALDIAGRAM GRID 20FT. LEGEND X 15FT. Building Boundary - 80FT. X 75FT. Floor Height - 10FT. (16 Story)

han river view

local connection

Outdoor shared space A. Public use - located low side in order not to lose the local / street connections.

Terrace Outdoor shared space Outdoor shared space Outdoor shared space A mix and publicuse terraces are placed in public B. ResidenceA.use - located top oflow public B. Residence - located on top of Public use - on located side in order not to of private a sporadic locations to minimize gaps existing communal space to provide both privacy and communal space to provide both privacy and lose the local / street connections. between neighbors or building users and great view of han river. great view of han river. non-users.

East

East West

Structural grid

Program Program LEGEND Relocating units Housing on the units ground aggregated to provide as aa rectangular large block. Relocating units on the ground to provide a largeDIAGRAM Exibition scaleResearch Residential Exibition scale outdoor public space for more flexible outdoor public space for more flexible access/entry to the building. access/entry to the building.

han river view

Natural light

Structural grid

West

Stair

Natural light

Stair (Internal Stair connections)

9TH FLOOR 6TH FLOOR Outdoor space - 600 sq.ft. Outdoor space - 900 sq.ft. Indoor space Indoor - 2,700space sq.ft. - 4,500 sq.ft.

PLAN

North Scale N.T.S.

Major floor plans

Site boundary Building boundary

GROUND FLOOR

8TH FLOOR

1 2 3 4 5

Vertical core Entrance Security room Outdoor resting area Lounge

Vertical core Office Research area Meeting room Outdoor terrace

3 4

4TH FLOOR 1 2 3 4 5 6

10TH FLOOR

Vertical core Information desk Exhibition area Storage Private conference area Terrace

2 4

1 2 3 4

Unit type A Unit type B Unit type C Communal area

1 2 3

6TH FLOOR 1 2 3 4 5 6

14TH FLOOR

Cafe Indoor seating area Outdoor seating area Public restroom Research area Lounge

1 2 3 4

Unit type A Unit type B Unit type C Communal area

3 3

5 6

VISUALIZATION A Computer aided rendering

VISUALIZATION B Computer aided rendering

Library in a park PROJECT INFORMATION YEAR

2001 (ACADEMIC STUDIO - 3RD YEAR)

CRITIC HYUNG RAE RHO (CHUNG-ANG UNIVERSITY) A LOCATION

NOWON-GU, SEOUL, S. KOREA

B LOT AREA

1,760 SQUARE METER

C PROGRAM

LIBRARY

DESIGN CHALLENGE Design a neighborhood library for local residents in neighborhood park. SCENARIO Due to convenient accessibility, the citizens recognize the park as a gathering place and as a result, the Onsoo neighborhood parks form local communities. The anticipated library in conjunction with the street will provide a new pedestrian arrangement in the park. The library will be incorporated into the existing urban street space, and made in line with the flow of the existing park trails. Create a pedestrian street in a small park in the city, and further connect with the city that exists within the hot spring park's trails, in conjunction with the existing urban street networks. CONCEPT Citizens + Neighborhood Park + Library = Community corridor Make the space to feel the awareness of local people on the square in the neighborhood parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trails. It will foster community relationships.

SITE CONTEXT

CONCEPTUAL IDEA

In-between large apt complex and small local village

Study of confronting facades and main corridor

NEW TOWN

MAJOR

ROAD

NEW TOWN

LOCAL VILLAGE

SITE

Main entrance corridor Sketches of confronting facades of the segregated masses - The intensity of subdivision level of the panels and appropriate width of corridor are mainly speculated

NEW TOWN M AJ OR RO AD

View of Park Satellite view of the site illustrating different housing density level zones

The designated neighborhood park is located in a residential area, a suburb of Seoul city. The neighborhood park is located at an inflection point between large apartment complexes formed by new urban planning and the existing old town. Access to the inside of the park is available from several places, mainly from sites on both sides of the main road. The park gives local citizens relaxation and meeting functions and connects the old town with the new town.

View of Park 30 meter level showing neighborhood park area

Sketches of initial site and massing schemes Under considerations of utilizing sun lights, some portions of building mass have different heights to accumulate more energy sources.

DESIGN SCHEME & PLAN Form development diagram + Floor plans

FIRST FLOOR

PROCEDURE

1 2 3 4 5

A Existing pedestrian paths created by natual human movement. 1

B Zone for library construction selected.

C Corridor penetrating the center of the site generated.

A Direction

B Massing

Graphic collection Audio-visual collection Multi-media technology Multi-function room Terrace

C Corridor

D Separated mass rearranged in order to form a plaza

E Form developed considering natural light penetrations. F Some portions are elevated from the ground in order to provide an open terrace below the massive structure.

5 4

D Plaza

E Terrace for light

F Cantilever mass

SECOND FLOOR 1 2 3 4 5

Fiction collection Associated seating area Reading area Kid's room Terrace

4 2

Main Corridor

Street Plaza

THIRD FLOOR

Public Park

1 2 3 4 5

3 1

Non-fiction collection Reading area Senior area Multi-function area Terrace

4 5

North 1 2 3 4

Sitting and display area Magazine and newspaper stacks Kid's reading area Gallery

Ground level Two building masses, both including public library programs that can be shared, are closely facing each other to evoke better social interactions between segregated building users.

VISUALIZATION A

VISUALIZATION B

Physical model

Computer aided rendering

ORTHOGONAL TOP VIEW The orientation of the building blocks are carefully laid under speculations of maximizing the use of environmental factors such as natural light and wind direction.

MAIN ENTRANCE / PUBLIC AREA To emphasize and maximize the function of main corridor that consistently reconnects the two segregated masses, the main entrance is closely surrounded by the adjacent building masses in order not to reveal the entire corridor at an initial glance.

GREEN AREA A large portion of area on the rear side of the building is allocated for public green area to provide not only for the outdoor reading area, but also for temporal gathering space such as music concert, performance, etc.

UP Computer aided rendering showing the overall building masses View of main entrance and corridor LEFT Computer aided rendering portraying some detailed views of merging moments of the segregated building masses

Leaf village PROJECT INFORMATION YEAR

2001 (ACADEMIC STUDIO - 3RD YEAR)

CRITIC JUNG HYUNG LEE (CHUNG-ANG UNIVERSITY) A LOCATION

GOYANG, GYEONGI, S. KOREA

B LOT AREA

2,420 SQUARE METER

C PROGRAM

APARTMENT

DESIGN CHALLENGE Design a eco-friendly apartment complex. CONCEPT The complexâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s design uses the basic motif of the leaf. Just like the spreading shape of the vein, leaves and stem. The leaf moves nutrients to the tree through a vein structure. Main building block is along the east-west direction, and set out the main pedestrian trail in accordance with the primary north-south axis through the implementation of Piloti. And at the same time, the open space is expanded to east and west neighboring land. The open space will allow a variety of outdoor spaces in between building blocks. The height of building is varied in order to attenuate the feeling of the high-density complex. As a result, the open space will have systematic hierarchy. SITE CONTEXT The designated site is created by the city's development plan from the local government. The shape of site is elongated along north-south axis. The east side of the site is composed of small mounds of greenery and bordered with land for elementary school. The west side land is designated as an industrial area.

DESIGN PROCESS

SITE SCHEME

Conceptual diagram + Green path diagram

Zonal strategy + circulation diagram A. ZONAL DIVISIONS

ZONE A Mainly consisted with parking lots, functioning as a buffering area of the industrial zone located on the West side. ZONE B Lots of paths for both pedestrians and building users are provided with a large spectrum of street widths and connections. ZONE C To avoid extremely unconstrained allowance to the site, surfaces with flat boundaries on the East are raised by utilizing soils that are excavated for parking spaces.

B. BLOCK MASSING A. TREE

B. LEAF

C. READ DESIGN FACTORS

D. EXTRACT CIRCULATION

E. BLOCK MASSING

Just like spreading vein of the leaf, the organic composition of the leaf is used as the fundamental motif of the plan.

The extracted design factors form a variety of exterior spaces.

Along the main circulation, block mass is deployed.

TYPE A Instead of equally distributing spaces for mechanical or energy-saving equipment, four vertical towers are segregated with fully equipped systems to provide more flexible areas for private zone. TYPE B Curvature forms of residential blocks are generated not only to minimize monotonic growth within the site boundary, but also to afford a diverse range of scenery views from differently located units.

C. PUBLIC NETWORK Starting from the green mound, green network play a role as the proliferation of the green effect of the unit's exterior wall and the role improves

In order to protract or maximize the quality that public space obtains, two other major axis for residential users are intentionally placed alongside the central axis for public, creating an entended community area.

the diversity of elevation according to the elevation of the unit. The green network recycles the unit's emissions and provide a natural environment for the unit again. Spreading greenery thro ugh the exterior wall are connected to the public space of the linear type and tower type residence.

A B

Site plan diagram Circulation diagram A

Green path for residence Public park / Green mound

Commercial Zone

Community Parking Entrance

GROUND LEVEL

2ND FLOOR LEVEL

3RD FLOOR LEVEL

4TH FLOOR LEVEL

Parking

UNIT TYPE

SUSTAINABILITY

Three major unit types consisting the overall structure

Sectional diagram of reuse system

A. VERTICAL TYPE 60.5m2 Main hall, nearby the vertical core, is composed under considerations of natural sunlight penetration and air ventilation for community space users. 1 2 3 4

Living room Bedroom Bathroom Public green space

UP Reuse concept diagram - Residential units (micro scale) DW Reuse concept diagram - Entire Building (macro scale)

B. LINEAR TYPE 70m2 This unit type can be extended by combining adjacent units. The program for the extension can also be chosen, without any restrictions, by the user. 1 Living room 2 Bedroom 3 Bathroom

C. SKIPPED-STOP TYPE 85m2 This unit type is appropriate for large families such as three-generation family and is carefully designed for elderly - terraces on different floors have visual connections in order not to segregate different generations of people.

Landscape Water Supply

1 Living room 2 Bedroom 3 Bathroom Recycled Water

Sustainable Pond Water Storage

PLAN

North (site plan) Scale (varies)

Site plans + Unit plans

Green path for residence Public park / Green mound

SITE PLAN A & B 1 2 3 4 5 6

Main street Pedestrian zone Community zone Mound zone Deck plate Lake

1 3

3 4

2 2

UNIT PLAN A 1 2 3 4

Vertical core Main corridor Private Terrace Public park

UNIT PLAN B 1 2 3 4

Vertical core Main corridor Private Terrace Public park

VISUALIZATION A Computer aided rendering

VISUALIZATION B

Physical model A

A B C D

Site model - View of the entire structure Site model - Orthogonal top view Detailed model - Street view Detailed model - View of gathering area

Mutual enrichment PROJECT INFORMATION YEAR

2002 (ACADEMIC STUDIO - 4TH YEAR)

CRITIC YOON KYUNG CHOI (CHUNG-ANG UNIVERSITY) A LOCATION

DOKSEODANG ST., S. KOREA

B LOT AREA

1,180 SQUARE METER

C PROGRAM

COMMERCIAL RETAIL, RESIDENCE, COMMUNITY CENTER

DESIGN CHALLENGE The redeveloped residential area and the existing commercial area suffer a disconnection. CONCEPT The desirable city should have continuous urban topography, a spatial structure that citizens are able to move about and live a comfortable everyday life. A harmonious city has a proper and smooth operation in the morphological, structural and functional aspects. The city should be developed with considering connection between redeveloped and remaining zone but unfortunately the city has been developed without considering those relationship due to quick building in recent rapid economic development. I think that we need to fix this disconnection between the redevelopment and the remaining zone. Architecture in urban spaces is always progressing, making a space where conservation and development constantly clash. There is a lot of redevelopment in Seoul City. Yet the city has been too disconnected due to ignoring site context and need for integration. This is our realistic appearance. Between the redeveloped apartment complex and detached houses, a break occurred and the disconnected environment have created indifference and conflict to each other. If our city has been planned for not only one purpose but also controlled for each other, it will be able to advanced further in the right direction. A harmonious environment improves profit generally and enriches the lives in the city.

SITE CONTEXT & CRISIS

DESIGN PROCESS

Discontinuity caused by an erroneous urban development

Additional structure and mass for reconnecting

Existing retail units faced along the Dokseodang Street in Seoul. The economic logic of the redevelopment focuses only on the new building itself. As a result the retail blocks were marginalized, cut off. Retail Block alienated from the redevelopment looks like a mixed residential and commercial retails and shows signs obstructed by a retaining wall of about 7 meters from the new apartment complex. This retaining wall makes the Dokseodang Street disconnected with the city grid and create a conflict in the city.

CURRENT SITUATION

PROCEDURE A

PROCEDURE B

PROCEDURE C

Newly created walls interrupt further generation of memory.

Remove walls that significantly harm social interaction and insert piloti.

Reorganize programmatic masses and provide paths for more connections.

Larger scale of masses added under considerations of inner mass connectivity.

Commercial Volume

Residential Volume

A City as a place where memories are stored

B Alienated buildings occur via an erroneous urban development

Dokseodag Street

rki

Are

Inner Masses

Pedestrian Path

Vehicle Path C Newly created physical wall discontinues further memory generation

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D Block masses are added to reconnect the once segregated buildings.

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PLAN Floor plans of different levels

North Scale 1 : 3200

Residential block Commercial block

VISUALIZATION A Computer aided rendering

LEVEL + 1.5m / + 5.0m A B C D E

Retail space Public library Public exhibition area Bicycle racks Parking space

LEVEL + 8.5m / + 12.0m A B C D E F

Residential blocks Commercial blocks Gallery space Public media room Public Park Lounge

UP DW

Diagrammatic rendering - Various views View of entire building structure

LEVEL + 15.5m / ROOF A B C D E

Residential blocks Commercial blocks Rooftop garden Multi-function area Terrace

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VISUALIZATION B Physical model

A B C

Detailed model - View of public / pedestrian path Detailed model - Orthogonal top view of community center Detailed model - View of residential and commercial blocks A

UP DW

View of community center located in the central zone View of the entire building structure

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Professional Works PROJECT INFORMATION YEAR

2006 - 2011

FIRM

HEERIM ARCHITECTS & PLANNERS (SEOUL, S. KOREA)

A LOCATION

VARIES

B LOT AREA

VARIES

C PROGRAM

VARIES

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PROFESSIONAL WORK A Center One

Site Seoul, South Korea Year 2006 - 2009 Area 168,500m2 (Gross)

The site is located in a historical place of Seoul surrounded by park named "Hanbit Media Park" and three major roads. On this project, two values of "Tradition" and "Perpetuity" are mainly considered. The best possible way to retain 'perpetuity' of the building design is to follow the fundamental principle in the very first moment and then add the innovative technology. In order to maintain the existing traditional values, the Eastern traditional Yin-Yang philosophy has been applied as a form generating procedure. In the design perspective, white pipe cladding on the facade makes the identity of the building itself. Also, it conveys a sense that two divergent masses are aggrevated from a primitive origin. UP A B C

UP D E F G

Rendering - Bird's eye view Site model - Front view Site model - Top view Study model

Rendering - Atrium study Study model - Curtain wall Study model - Atrium Structure Study model - Curtain wall Study model - Curtain wall

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PROFESSIONAL WORK B Dubai Majan Housing

Site Dubai, U.A.E. Year 2008 Area 347,500m2 (Gross)

Instead of competing with other high-rise buildings with a single purpose of creating an iconic figure in Dubai, Dubai Majan Housing project corresponds to the physical landscape of the region and focuses on the visual axis of the towers. The major conceptual elements are derived from the physical characteristics of Dubai - desert, consistently formulated by natural wind flow, and cactus, symbol of vitality, standing horizontally and vertically.

UP Rendering - Worm's eye view DW Design concept diagram

Geographic characteristic

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Elemental characteristic

Amalgamation

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PROFESSIONAL WORK C Baku Residential Complex

Site Baku, Azerbaijan Year 2009 Area 99,000m2 (Gross)

UP Rendering - Bird's eye view & Form study A Schematic concept diagram B Study model - Form development

A/B

A - Spheroid

B - Crescent

C - Landmark

D - Form

UP Residential tower plan DN Schematic podium plan

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PROFESSIONAL WORK D Bangkok Sports Complex

Site Bangkok, Thailand Year 2009 Area 416,500m2 (Gross)

LEFT Rendering - Worm's eye view DW Design concept diagram

LEFT Site model DW Form study model

Sports facilities

Linking

Spiral

Floating

S-Park

Entrance

Function

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Green zone

Access

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PROFESSIONAL WORK E 2014 Asian Game Sports Complex

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Site Inchen, Korea Year 2011 Area 12,600m2 (Gross)

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PROFESSIONAL WORK F M Church

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Site Seoul, Korea Year 2005 Area 5,500m2 (Gross)

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